Yosemite ecologist Garret Dickman has seen ... beloved Mariposa Grove—a patch of about 500 mature giant sequoias, some of which are more than 2,000 years old­—the first word out of his ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — The largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park remained closed Saturday, a day after hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate as a wildfire ...

Nor have any other giant sequoias in Mariposa Grove, which Muldoonas called "the root of the whole national park system." The fame of Mariposa Grove predates that of Yosemite itself and the ...

Fire management teams have wrapped the historic Galen Clark cabin in protective foil, Yosemite spokesperson Scott Gediman said. And they’ve installed a sprinkler system to dampen the ground ...

The Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias in Yosemite National Park has reopened. The popular destination, home to the beloved Grizzly Giant tree near the park’s south entrance, reopened Wednesday ...

Count Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. among Yosemite’s biggest fans. This spring, the brewery is featuring a special collection of ...

It has grown more to the south, according to reports, but it has also extended slightly closer to Yosemite's famed Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. The fire is also producing a huge amount of ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A famed grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park survived its first wildfire in more than a century, thanks to efforts to regularly burn the ...

Rising like red-hued skyscrapers in the Sierra Nevada, the towering sequoias here echo the giants in Yosemite, right in a charming Gold Rush town.