When the Washburn fire burned part of the famed Mariposa sequoia grove in Yosemite last year, it burned at low intensity where the park had previously conducted prescribed burns. Park officials ...

But when the blaze swept into Mariposa Grove, the biggest and best known of the park's three old-growth sequoia clusters, it ran smack into the area of the most recent prescribed fire, slowing its ...

Mariposa Grove, near the park’s south entrance ... with more than 85 percent of all giant sequoia grove acreage across the Sierra Nevada has burned in wildfires between 2015 and 2021, compared ...

The tallest Sequoia tree in Mariposa Grove is about 290 feet (88 meters). They are not the tallest trees this is awarded to the coastal redwoods. In total volume, the giant sequoias are the ...

The Mariposa Grove is home to more than 500 mature giant sequoia trees and is the largest sequoia grove in the park. The most well-known tree — the Grizzly Giant — stands 209 feet high tall ...

Over 500 mature giant sequoias are located in the southern portion of Yosemite at the the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, which is the largest sequoia grove in Yosemite and includes the 3,000 ...

Mariposa Grove is one of three giant sequoia groves in Yosemite. Their massive trunks can measure almost 30 feet around, as big as a house. The branches on some giant sequoias are as thick as the ...

Sequoia National Park, about 150 miles northwest of the Mariposa Grove, faced a similar predicament in September, when the KNP Complex Fire ravaged nearby terrain unabated. This July 2022 photo ...

The Washburn Fire, which now covers more than 2,000 acres, is approaching the Mariposa Grove ... SFGate reports the park’s best known sequoia, Grizzly Giant, a 2,700-year-old tree, has not ...

When the Washburn fire burned part of the famed Mariposa sequoia grove in Yosemite last year, it burned at low intensity where the park had previously conducted prescribed burns. Park officials ...