Dozens of people gathered Thursday at the base of the Sequoia Legacy Tree in Downtown Visalia to honor it before it is cut down due to disease. At about 102 feet around, it is one of the largest ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

Iconic sequoia trees that tower over millions of captivated visitors at Yosemite National Park each year are under threat from a fast-moving fire. The fire quickly spread amid hot and dry weather ...

The time has come to remove Visalia’s beloved Sequoia Legacy Tree. Planted in 1936 as a tribute to Sequoia National Park, the tree has been sick for years, as some community members have noted. Before ...

As a child, my parents took me to see General Sherman, the tree in Sequoia National Park, and I became awestricken by the sheer size and magnificence of giant sequoias. As an adult, still enamored ...

Visalia is known as the Gateway to the Sequoias. In 2018, as a way to give visitors a sampling of Visalia’s connection to the national park, Visit Visalia with the help of many volunteers created the ...

Largest tree by volume on earth. More pristine Sierra wilderness that in Yosemite National Park. Second deepest river gorge ...

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Roots run deep on the corner of Acequia Avenue and Locust Street in Downtown Visalia. The City's historic Sequoia Legacy Tree has been around for nearly a century. The tree ...

Uniquely is a Fresno Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Fresno area so special. The past few years had been particularly rough for ...

The giant sequoias have been living in the Western U.S. for thousands of years. Nestled on the Western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range live isolated patches of some of the world's oldest and ...

High-intensity fires in 2020 and 2021 devastated the adult sequoia tree population globally, particularly at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in Northern California. That is one of the few ...