A wildfire burning southeast of Visalia quadrupled in size within four hours Friday as it stretched toward the Giant Sequoia National Monument in Tulare County. According to Cal Fire, the Castle ...

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In a decision praised by environmentalists but scorned by loggers, President Bill Clinton created this monument in 2000 covering about 328,000 acres of land in central California where the giant ...

The Castle and Shotgun fires burning northeast of Ponderosa have been renamed the Sequoia Complex Fire. The blaze has scorched 14,750 acres near the Giant Sequoia National Monument and shows no ...

The national monument is designed to protect some of the world’s largest and oldest trees. The sequoia groves themselves account for about 20,000 acres, or roughly 6%, of the total monument.

During its first decade, the Forest Service’s logging plan for the monument would open up 1,800 acres of the sequoia groves with mechanized thinning operations or controlled fires.

The two wildfires of the KNP Complex have merged in Sequoia National Park. The Paradise and Colony fires, ignited by lightning on Sept. 9, met at the Marble Fork of the Kaweah River.

A judge on Monday stopped a logging project in Giant Sequoia National Monument, keeping intact for now more than 1,000 acres in a preserve that houses most of the world’s largest trees.

PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE NATIONAL MONUMENT-HAWAII This remote monument northwest of Hawaii's main islands was created by President George W. Bush in 2006 and was quadrupled in size last year by Obama.

The KNP Complex wildfire has reached the area of Wuksachi Lodge in Sequoia National Park. As of Wednesday morning, fire managers for the Forest Service estimated the fire’s size at 28,421 acres ...