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Tiny seedlings of giant sequoias rise from ashes of wildfire

Sequoia Crest residents were joined by schoolchildren and a Michigan nonprofit last week to plant the little trees.
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Caryssa Rouser, a propagation specialist with Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, plants a sequoia tree on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, in Sequoia Crest, Calif. The effort led by the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, a nonprofit trying to preserve the genetics of the biggest old-growth trees, is one of many extraordinary measures being taken to save giant sequoias that were once considered nearly fire-proof and are in jeopardy of being wiped out by more intense wildfires. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

SEQUOIA CREST, Calif. — Tiny seedlings of giant sequoias are rising from the ashes of a California mountain community devastated by wildfire last year.

Sequoia Crest residents were joined by schoolchildren and a Michigan nonprofit last week to plant the little trees. The Archangel Ancient Tree Archive hopes the genes from two of the largest and oldest trees on the planet will protect their offspring from the perils of climate change. 

Extraordinary measures have been taken to protect the big trees from intense fires that wiped out more than 10% of their population last year. More sequoias died in fires this year, but the tally is incomplete.

Read the full AP story here.

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