How to protect Giant Sequoias at Yosemite from Rim Fire

 

USFS is actually running sprinklers to
try and protect the Giant Sequoias
in Tuolumne Grove of the
Yosemite National Park from the
Rim Fire.

  August 25, 2013:   Park authorities are beginning to get very nervous as the monstrous Rim Fire seems to set its sites on Yosemite National Park's Giant Sequoia Groves.

   The Sequoias are important symbols of the National Park System one park spokesman said. The Rim Fire, as of a report at 7:30 PM is 133, 980 acres and still 7% contained.