'Once they're gone, they're gone': the fight to save the giant sequoia'Once they're gone, they're gone': the fight to save the giant sequoiaFew living beings have experienced as much as the giant sequoias. “Giant sequoias really need wildfire,” explained Kristen Shive, a forest ecologist with Save the Redwoods. Droughts also depleted giant sequoias, weakening them and leaving them vulnerable to bark beetles that chomp through their bark and spread a fungus that can kill them. “There’s a handful of giant sequoia trees that died in the recent drought,” said Anthony Ambrose, a plant ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley. They’re so beautiful, and you realize once they’re gone, they’re gone.”

Source: The Guardian October 06, 2019 10:52 UTC