'Once they're gone, they're gone': the fight to save the giant sequoia

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A conservation group plans to buy the largest privately owned sequoia grove as the climate crisis threatens the species’ future

Few living beings have experienced as much as the giant sequoias. With ancestors dating back to the Jurassic era, some of the trees that now grow along California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains been alive for thousands of years, bearing witness to most of human history – from the fall of the Roman empire to the rise of Beyoncé.

 

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Unless we save the seeds for the post human world.

Hi, we watched a documentary judging last week on these MAGNIFICENT, MAJESTIC GIANTS. with Neil Oliver on BBCFOUR. They are meant to be protected for PERPETUITY thus even realDonaldTrump and his dysfunctional brain can't even do anything to them. Or does utterly hate USA.

GovHowardDean A hopeful read!

Well, heaven forbid the Rouch family should just give the land away. They express a lot of sorrow about the trees and want to save them...for $15 million?

I love those trees

The capitalist's original money tree

Mother nature gives us the impossible but we do the possible. What a shame.

Yep. Trees like this will never regrow like this again and yet humans cut them down with the belief, “it’s just a plant, it’ll regrow”. They think the same with logging and fires, if they did their research they’d find out they’re wrong

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