Fire Management Saves Yosemite’s Giant Sequoias Handout

Fire Management Saves Yosemite’s Giant Sequoias Handout
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Prescribed Burning and Thinning Save Yosemite’s Giant Sequoias CART Case Study Handout

Yosemite National Park’s giant sequoias are at risk from severe fire effects driven by an accumulation of fuels and climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.

Learn more about climate change . Park staff and partners use thinning and prescribed burning to help sequoias resist these pressures and be more resilient to future fire.

Read the full case study here: https://www.fws.gov/project/fire-management-saves-yosemites-giant-sequoias

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