Controlled burning could begin before the end of the month on 1,300 acres of Calaveras Big Trees State Park’s dangerously overgrown South Grove of Giant Sequoias, the largest stand of
A lightning-strike spot fire that has been managed by federal firefighters over the past month to consume excess fuels in the Stanislaus National Forest had burned 6,929 acres as of
It’s been five months since advocates and state officials began publicizing severe fire damage done to a historic pair of monarch giant sequoias known as “The Orphans” during a prescribed