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Giant sequoias wrapped in protective foil as multiple wildfires threaten ancient trees

Giant sequoias wrapped in protective foil as multiple wildfires threaten ancient trees

ABC News
Friday, September 17, 2021 9:54 PM GMT

Crews are working to protect California's famed groves of giant sequoias, as multiple fires continue to burn unabated.

Crews are working to protect California's famed groves of giant sequoias as multiple fires nearby burn unabated.

The base of General Sherman, the largest tree in the world by volume at 275 feet tall and over 36 feet wide, and other sequoias in Sequoia National Park's Giant Forest have been covered in a protective foil due to the threat of intense heat from the KNP Complex fires.

"These trees are adaptive to fire, but not intense fire, so we want to do everything that we can to protect these trees as well as all these historic cabins that are on the national park," Steven Bekkerus, a public information officer for the KNP Complex, told ABC Fresno affiliate KFSN Thursday.

The Giant Forest, home to more than 2,000 giant sequoias, has a "really good history" of prescribed fires, though recent drought could but them at greater risk, according to Jon Wallace, an operations section chief for the KNP Complex.

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