NASA-Funded Study Shows How Controlled Burns Help Sequoias Survive Wildfires
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Left: An aerial photo showing (foreground) high sequoia mortality in an area that had not experienced fire in many decades, and (background) high sequoia survival in an area that had been treated with prescribed fire in 2012.Right: General Sherman, a giant sequoia and the largest tree in the world by volume, towers over the rest […]