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I just got an email dated today about this, but I see that the news is a year old now...
But the comment period ends March 18, there is a public meeting on Feb 27: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/projectHom ... tId=107200
The proposed action includes growing sequoia seedlings from collected seed, transporting the seedlings to the remote Board Camp Grove via helicopter, and planting 12,000 sequoia seedlings in the fall, just prior to winter precipitation.
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Already established that with climate change natural reproduction following fires is way down. In most areas, the options are replant or have many decades of brushfield. Any subsequent fire in the brushfield would kill any incipient reproduction, without artificial reforestation there likely will not ever be a forest in several lifespans.
Also, each Sequoia Grove has unique genetics. The FS has collected seeds from every known grove and is keeping them in long term storage (IIRC at the Placerville Nursery) for such an eventuality.
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