Giant Sequoia Alder Creek Grove
Another Giant Forest Gone. We were very lucky to spend 3 days climbing in the Alder Creek Grove of Giant Sequoia in 2018. Reading the news quoted below wasn't a great way to start the day.
SEQUOIA CREST, Calif. — Kristen Shive glanced around the blackened forest and started counting. She stopped at 13 — the number of giant sequoias she spotted with charred trunks, scorched crowns and broken limbs.
The towering trees had grown on this Sierra Nevada ridge top for well over 500 years. They had lived through many wildfires and droughts. But they could not survive the Castle fire, which swept into the Alder Creek Grove in the early hours of Sept. 13. In Sequoia Crest, a small vacation-home community developed in the grove in the 1960s, chimneys and foundations are all that remains of about a third of its 104 houses.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/s...