[Eric Hansen]

Lengthy article at this URL, and I put a few pull quotes below https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/sequoias-wildfire-california/ "To Save Sequoias from Wildfire, We Must Save Them from Ourselves "Fire in California is an apex predator. When the system is balanced, it burns the young and the weak. When it’s out of balance, as it is now, controlling the best can prove impossible when it’s starving and everything is on the menu. "Once thought to be basically immortal, sequoias are now dying in droves as fires burn bigger, hotter, and longer than any other point in human history. Protecting them is possible, but managing western woods is a Pandora’s box of tough choices. "One out of every five giants has died in the past two years alone. “Five years ago, nobody would have done any of the sh## I’ve been doing,” Garrett says. “Now it’s pretty clear that if we don’t, there won’t be any left to show our kids.” "The fate of giant sequoias is almost entirely in the hands of a few middle managers, working at a few select parks, who navigate arcane environmental laws and a financing system cobbled together with public grants.