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We’re still learning the devastation caused by last year’s wildfire season in California. The National Park Service just completed a study that estimates ten to 14 percent of our state’s mature giant Sequoias were destroyed in a single wildfire. The trees were wiped out by the Castle Fire, which burned 273 square miles of tall timber in Sequoia National Park which sits on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada and is named after the tree, a redwood, They can grow to 200 feet tall, and live for more than 2-thousand years. Christy Brigham is the Chief of Resources Management and Science at the park and conducted the study. It showed between 7,500 and 10,000 mature giant Sequoias were lost in that one blaze, and Brigham says she’s was shocked by the numbers. “Surprised and devastated, honestly, Mike. It’s…um…it’s really upsetting,” says Brigham. Brigham says many of these trees had survived dozens, if not hundreds of wildfires in their lifetimes. As she puts it, they’re not weaklings
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