EditorialFirefighters apply foil wrap to protect General Sherman, a sequoia estimated to be around 2,300 to 2,700 years old, in Sequoia National Park in California on Sept. 17, 2021. (National Park Service via The New York Times)
EditorialA sequoia that survived a 2015 fire, only to be killed by beetles a few years later, in California’s Kings Canyon National Park, Oct. 27, 2020. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)