(AP) - Yosemite National Park's largest sequoia grove opened on Friday to the public after crews completed a restoration project to protect the nearly 500 ancient trees. Mariposa Grove, a 4-acre ...

The Washburn Fire, which now covers more than 2,000 acres, is approaching the Mariposa Grove, home to some 500 sequoias. The size of the fire more than doubled on Sunday, the AP reports ...

A team was being sent to the Mariposa Grove to wrap some of the massive trunks in fire-resistant foil to protect them as the blaze burned out of control, said Nancy Phillipe, a Yosemite fire ...