He was preparing for a prescribed burning at Calaveras Big Trees State Park's South Grove.
The outlet says that according to a park superintendent, firefighter Darin Banks was preparing a patch of land at Calaveras Big Trees State Park in the Sierra Nevada mountains for a prescribed burning – a method of reducing wildfire hazards and clearing debris by burning specific areas of land.
Banks was preparing control lines for a prescribed burning in the state park's South Grove, one of two groves of giant sequoias that are believed to beThe Union Democrat says that the area was due for “badly-needed” controlled burns following a series of massive wildfires in 2020. These fires not only killed thousands of mature, 325-foot sequoias, but caused dire overgrowth in Calaveras Park’s North and South Groves.
NPS says that between 2015 and 2021, over 85 percent of all sequoia groves across the Sierra Nevada have been burned in wildfires. The Union Democrat reported that according to the nonprofit, Calaveras Big Trees Association, these mounting threats to giant sequoias are now a “crisis” and an “emergency.”
Banks “was doing dangerous, vital, and crucial work to protect our giant sequoias and prepare the forest for a prescribed burn that will help prevent a catastrophic fire in the park,” Vida Kenk, president of the Calaveras Big Trees Association, told the Union Democrat.
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