Crystal Cave is over a million years old and stretches about three miles, he says. Only a small fraction of caves in the ...

National parks were created to help preserve nature, but are more polluted than you may realize. Four of the five most ...

They are all cone-bearing conifers ... stands about 116 feet tall and 5 feet in diameter. The largest known giant sequoia tree east of the Rocky Mountains, it’s one of two listed on the Big ...

COPEMISH, MI – Giant sequoia trees in Michigan ... Usually, they send climbers up a particular tree to collect cones, and those cones are then nursed into seedlings. RELATED: There’s another ...

Giant sequoias are the largest trees on Earth ... The second thing it does is it heats the cones up in the mature sequoia trees, without harming the trees and those cones open and there's ...

That’s because giant sequoia trees are fire dependent ... Fire makes it so the cones open and the seeds actually disperse into the soil. That’s what allows these seedlings to pop up ...

Many of the best-known stands of giant sequoias grow ... Wildfire thinned the smaller trees and converted fine fuels into soil nutrients. Without fire, sequoia cones don’t open and spread ...

As an adult, still enamored with the trees, I bought a mail order giant sequoia tree a few years ago ... I had always thought my near-perfectly cone-shaped conifers were simply garden-variety ...

With minimal knowledge of tree species, I had always thought my near-perfectly cone-shaped conifers were ... to research the possibility of other giant sequoia enclaves in Southern California.