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US takes emergency action to save sequoias from wildfires

FILE - A grove of Giant Sequoia trees grows in Mountain Home State Demonstration Forest outside Springville, Calif., on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. The U.S. Forest Service is taking emergency action to speed up approval of projects to clear underbrush in giant sequoia groves to save the world's largest trees from the increasing threat of wildfire. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021 file photo, Flames burn up a tree as part of the Windy Fire in the Trail of 100 Giants grove in Sequoia National Forest, Calif. The U.S. Forest Service is taking emergency action to speed up approval of projects to clear underbrush in giant sequoia groves to save the world's largest trees from the increasing threat of wildfire. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File, File)

FILE - In this photo provided by the National Park Service, a firefighter clears loose brush from around a Sequoia tree in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park, Calif., in July 2022. The U.S. Forest Service is taking emergency action to speed up approval of projects to clear underbrush in giant sequoia groves to save the world's largest trees from the increasing threat of wildfire. (Garrett Dickman/NPS via AP, File)

FILE - Firefighters walk near a giant Sequoia at Grant Grove in Kings Canyon National Park, Calif., Sept. 12, 2015. The U.S. Forest Service is taking emergency action to speed up approval of projects to clear underbrush in giant sequoia groves to save the world's largest trees from the increasing threat of wildfire. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian, File)

US takes emergency action to save sequoias from wildfires