Sequoias threatened
by Lewis, 21 February, 2020, 0 comments
There is only one living member of the genus Sequoia, Sequoia sempervirens : the coast redwood. It is a coniferous trees and belongs to the family Cupressaceae. The redwoods (Sequoia sp) are amongst the largest and oldest living organisms on the planet – some are possibly more than three millennia old. The trees are found along the coastal regions of California and Oregon.
Whilst the trees can live to a great age, recent studies have found that the trees are suffering as a result of beetle attack, prolonged drought and and fire damage. Several of the long lived trees in the Sierra Nevada of California have died in recent years as a result of these ‘problems’. It had been thought that such trees could survive fire or beetle attack Read more...
