Exceptionally wet winters drove a boom of grasses and shrubs that a record hot summer dried into the fuel powering the Park fire in Northern California, the Line fire outside Los Angeles and other conflagrations.
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Fire once helped sequoias reproduce. Now, it’s killing the groves.
Two recent studies find that sequoia groves burned in California megafires of 2020 and 2021 were so severely damaged that the world’s tallest trees might not be able to naturally regenerate.