How a Naturalist Found Herself Snowed in with the World’s Biggest Trees
Category: Sequoias
![Sequoia Recovery, Not Restoration](https://www.ilovetrees.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Sequoia-Natural-Recovery-850x606.jpg)
NPS Planting Project Will Ruin Our Sequoia Groves California
The NPS is once again planning on tampering with wilderness areas, this time with a massive planting project that covers six sequoia groves: Homer’s Nose, Board Camp, Dillonwood, Suwanee, Redwood Mountain, and New Oriole.
![Save the Redwoods League Logging](https://www.ilovetrees.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/20230819-SUE03097-850x1275.jpg)
Save the Redwoods League Continues Logging the Sequoia Forests California
Save the Redwoods League continues to commercially log an ancient sequoia forest, including clearcut logging the entire side of a mountain. They are killing natural seedlings and deliberately increasing climate change.
![Sequoias in the Snow](https://www.ilovetrees.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20221110-SUE04588-850x1275.jpg)
Snowshoeing Sequoias California
The wintertime wonder of snowshoeing through a forest of ancient giant sequoias.
![Mariposa Grove killed sequoia](https://www.ilovetrees.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/20220606-SUE06450-850x1275.jpg)
Mariposa Grove is on Fire – The Most “Managed” Sequoia Grove of All California
Mariposa Grove has a long history of being managed. Millions of dollars were spent cutting and burning the forest in 2018. Yet, it’s on fire anyway.
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Windy Fire and KNP Complex Burning 22 Sequoia Groves and Counting
The Windy Fire and KNP Complex Fire continue the tree apocalypse of our time. Updated: October 4, 2021.
![Great Bonsai Mountain Home](https://www.ilovetrees.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/20210817-SUE07653-2-850x1312.jpg)
Great Bonsai Drops and Burns in Mountain Home California
The famous giant sequoia named Great Bonsai dropped its massive limbs to the ground, revealing that it had been burning on the inside for nearly an entire year since being killed by the 2020 Castle Fire.
![Castle Fire Severity Map](https://www.ilovetrees.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Castle-Fire-Severity-Map_cropped-850x1103.jpg)
Sequoia Mortality Study Released California
The Castle Fire destroyed 31-42% of all large giant sequoias in its path, the equivalent of 10-14% of their total population.
![Mountain Home after the Castle Fire](https://www.ilovetrees.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20210622-SUE05682_sm-850x567.jpg)
Mountain Home Castle Fire Update California
Methuselah and Oliver Twist unharmed, Genesis and Three-Fingered Jack heavily damaged, and other Castle Fire updates from Mountain Home Grove.
![Forgotten Grove after the Castle Fire](https://www.ilovetrees.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210511-SUE02054_sm-1-850x568.jpg)
Forgotten Grove: A Tale of Two Sequoias California
A visit to the mysterious and fire damaged Forgotten Grove in Sequoia National Park.
![Alder Creek Grove Sequoia Mortality Map](https://www.ilovetrees.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Alder-Creek-Sequoia-Mortality-Map-Pic_sm-1-850x561.jpg)
200 Dead Giant Sequoias in Alder Creek Grove California
Alder Creek Grove Sequoia Mortality Map Post SQF Complex / Castle Fire. Complete count of all giant sequoia trees in the Alder Creek Grove.
![Giant Sequoia in the Snow](https://www.ilovetrees.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210126-DJI_0160_sm-1-850x638.jpg)
Giant Sequoias in the Snow California
There’s nothing in the world like a giant sequoia wrapped in a majestic blanket of fresh snow. Enjoy 8 aerial videos of snowy sequoia canopies in 4K.
![Alder Creek Giant Castle Fire](https://www.ilovetrees.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201119-IMG_3902_sm.jpg)
Alder Creek Giant Actively Burning Two Months “after” the Castle Fire California
Alder Creek Grove giant actively on fire, in flames two months after the SQF Complex / Castle Fire.
![Patriarch Tree before and after Castle Fire](https://www.ilovetrees.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201115-Patriarch-before-and-after_sm-850x679.jpg)
Patriarch Tree Destroyed in the Castle Fire California
The famous Patriarch Tree and most of McIntyre Grove perished in the Castle Fire. Before and after photos of several giant sequoias.
![Alder Creek Castle Fire Sequoia Crest](https://www.ilovetrees.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201028-SUE06496_sm-850x1270.jpg)
Alder Creek Grove after the SQF Complex / Castle Fire – October 28, 2020 California
All giant sequoia are dead in the western section of Alder Creek Grove.
![Alder Creek sequoia after Castle Fire](https://www.ilovetrees.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201027-SUE06358_sm2-850x1275.jpg)
Alder Creek Grove after the SQF Complex / Castle Fire – October 27, 2020 California
Post-fire sequoias in an eastern section of Alder Creek Grove.
![Alder Creek sequoia after Castle Fire Sequoia Crest](https://www.ilovetrees.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016-DSC06695_sm-850x1213.jpg)
Alder Creek Grove (and Sequoia Crest) “After” the Castle Fire – October 11-16, 2020 California
Countless giant sequoias were killed by the SQF Complex / Castle Fire. Sequoia Crest burned down. A personal account of the loss.