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
Plans to ignite a prescribed burn Wednesday in Calaveras Big Trees State Park have been put on hold due to overnight rain, according to park officials.