- March 02, 2022
A small unnamed grove just outside the Black Mountain Grove, Sequoia National Forest. We called this one Fairy Grove. The smaller trees are full grown pines and firs, killed by the Pier Fire, looking even smaller against the sequoia giants. There were about ten giants here with two on the ground. From what John Muir says about sequoias and fire, this intensity, where everything but the sequoias were burned, was not common at all in the 19th century. John Muir was the founder of Sierra Club and an early natural scientists specializing in documenting observational evidence of our natural resources.