![]() This happened last year when the Castle Fire killed an estimated “7,500 to 10,600 large sequoias”, according to the National Park Service. While gentler forest fires actually help sequoias reproduce, by causing the cones to open and release seeds, hotter blazes, like The Colony Fire, burn higher up the trunks and burn the cones. The National Park Service registers the tree at 275 feet (84 meters) high with a ground level circumference of 103 feet (31 meters), containing 52,508 cubic feet (1,487 cubic meters). Sequoia National Park’s Giant Forest hosts five of the world's largest trees, including the General Sherman. A Strategic Fire War to Save the Ancients It was one of a group of ancient sequoias that was this week wrapped in fire-proof blankets in a bid to protect them from the wildfires ripping across the Western U.S. Estimated at being 2,000 or 3,000 years old, the tree grows in the Sequoia National Park’s Giant Forest, in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The largest measured tree in the world is a 275-foot (83.8 meter) sequoia known as General Sherman. ![]()
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