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Related: About this forumGiant Sequoias and CA Wildfires
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/17/worlds-largest-tree-wrapped-in-fire-resistant-blanket-as-california-blaze-creeps-closerFirefighters have wrapped the base of the worlds largest tree in a fire-resistant blanket as they tried to save a famous grove of gigantic old-growth sequoias from wildfires burning in Californias rugged Sierra Nevada.
The colossal General Sherman tree in Sequoia national parks giant forest, some of the other sequoias, the Giant Forest Museum and other buildings were wrapped as protection against the possibility of intense flames, fire spokesperson Rebecca Paterson said.
The aluminium wrapping can withstand intensive heat for short periods. Federal officials say they have been using the material for several years throughout the US west to protect sensitive structures from flames. Homes near Lake Tahoe that were wrapped in protective material survived while others nearby were destroyed.
The Colony fire, one of two burning in Sequoia national park, was expected to reach the Giant Forest, a grove of 2,000 sequoias, at some point on Thursday. It comes after a wildfire killed thousands of sequoias, some as tall as high-rises and thousands of years old, in the region last year.
The General Sherman tree is the largest in the world by volume, at 1,487 cubic meters, according to the National Park Service. It towers 84 meters high and has a circumference of 31 meters at ground level.
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Giant Sequoias and CA Wildfires (Original Post)
Lucinda
Sep 2021
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littlemissmartypants
(25,483 posts)1. Prayers up! ❤
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)4. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️
Thank you!
littlemissmartypants
(25,483 posts)5. ❤ nt
padfun
(1,856 posts)2. My Favorite Park
Sequoia's grow when forest fires burn their forests. The seed generate from that heat or whatever but that's how they propagate.
But still, it hurts to see any of it burn. The big sequoia's are near the west entrance so are in bigger danger of fires that would come from outside the park. North of Sequoia is the southern part of Yosemite but I don't think this fire would ever make it that far nor in that direction.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)3. They mentioned that - but the fires have been hotter than the trees can stand
They lost a huge section of old growth trees in the last fire because of the extreme heat of the flames
Hopefully the wrapping can save these ancient ones
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