Rep. Vince Fong (R-Calif.) can't shake the environmental fight over reducing wildfire threats in California's sequoia groves.

It has a name, the President, bestowed about 90 years ago by admiring humans. It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron giganteum, one of several surviving species of redwoods.

“Big Tree mania” set in, William Tweed writes in a 2016 history of the giant sequoia. Pieces of Dowd’s tree went on tour to San Francisco and to New York City. By 1855, a hotel had been ...

Conservators applied solvent gel to the giant sequoia to draw the old varnish out The team then applied a special solvent gel to the surface that is on display. Chelsea explains, 'The solvent ...

The area is open to the public and offers visitors a chance to see giant sequoias and redwoods outside of California. The ...

Planting of these fast-growing, carbon-eating seedlings, descendants of the Stagg and Waterfall trees, will begin this spring ...

The great giants we associate with redwoods belong to the other two species: the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) and coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), both of which can top 300 feet ...

Reps. Vince Fong and Scott Peters are introducing legislation to speed restoration of fire-threatened giant sequoia groves.

Rep. Vince Fong (R–Bakersfield) is pushing a bipartisan bill that would protect California’s Giant Sequoias. Fong and Rep. Scott Peters (D–La Jolla) have introduced the Save Our Sequoias Act to ...

The Save Our Sequoias Act is back. Republican Congressman Vince Fong, who represents District 20 which includes the Springville area and the Tule River Reservation, has reintroduced the Save Our ...

The Giant Forest is also home to the famous General ... of the free park shuttle also stop here. Sequoia National Park Small Group Tour from Three Rivers (87 reviews) Small Group Sequoia Tour ...