This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... broken or unbroken, the trees were hardly worth cutting. Sequoia National Park was established in 1890, and ...

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California (AP) — High in the evergreen canopy of General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, researchers searched for evidence of an emerging threat to giant sequoias ...

This story appears in the December 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... below the sequoia zone, 16 percent of the trees have died this year, approximately 10-fold the usual rate.

Following several attempts to bring the conservation of the Sequoia trees under the Federal radar, the National Park Service ...

The largest tree on earth, the General Sherman, is found in the groves at Sequoia National Park. Sequoia and its neighbors protect a large-scale ecosystem directly east of California’s heavily ...