About 10 to 14% of the world's giant sequoia trees were destroyed by a single wildfire that swept through California's Sequoia National Forest last summer, a new draft report from the National Park Service indicates
The report, which has not yet been made publicly available, used satellite images to show the shocking impact the Castle Fire had on the giant trees, in what experts call an unprecedented mortality event caused by a combination of climate change-driven drought and fire suppression efforts. "The loss of 7,500 to 10,600 large giant sequoias, many of which are likely thousands of years old, is devastating," the study's lead author, Dr.
But fire suppression efforts have allowed the forest to grow denser, which when combined with a yearslong drought, has allowed many of those trees to die out, creating more fuels that burned hotter and more intensely than in previous fires. "My first reaction was to cry," said Brigham.
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