Three rivers: After the California forest fires, more than 10,000 trees weakened by fires, droughts, diseases or ages must be eliminated, work that will make the nearest highway closed for visitors who are looking for two largest sequoia trees in the world.
The danger tree has the potential to fall on people and cars in the part of the country of 180 routes known as General Highway, or they can create obstacles to emergency response and fire, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park Friday.
The highway was closed because the Blaze complex KNP, which contained 60 percent after burning 138 square miles (357 square kilometers) forest, and would remain blocked by a visitor after the fire came out while looking at the crew cutting down the tree and cutting twigs.
The weather of the cooler has helped slow the flame and the area is expected to see rain starting on Sunday.
The highway connects giant forests, houses for general sherman trees, which are considered the largest volume in the world, and Grant Grove, home for general grant trees, the second largest tree in the world.
The trees along the highway including sequoias, pine and konifer trees, said Kimberly Caschalk fire spokesman.
The KNP complex has been burned since September 9, when lightning sparked two fire which then joined.
Forest officers said earlier this month the fire may have killed hundreds of giant sequoias, but fully damaged has not been determined.
The impact of fire in the giant sequoia garden is mixed.
Most of them see low-intensity fire behavior that sequoias has evolved to survive, and the most prominent trees survive.
Firefighters take the extraordinary steps to protect Sequoias by wrapping fireproof material around a few giant bases, sweeping and cleaning the vegetation around them, putting up sprinklers and weed water or retard water gel.
On Friday, forest staff opened the General Sherman tree base after the danger from the fire had passed.
“We believe the tree is relatively safe,” Caschalk said.
Drought in the West is bound by climate change makes fires more difficult to fight.
Scientists say climate change has made Westerners much warmer and more dried in the last 30 years – which means rain and snow falling likely will evaporate or absorb into the soil – and will continue to make the weather more extreme and forest fires more often and destructive .
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Hurricane has recently helped contain some of the largest forest fires in the country, including one that threatens the popular territory of Lake Tahoe Resort this summer and is now 100 percent contained after the snow enveloped the west side of fire and the rain fell on the east side.
But this week’s storm will not end the drought that disturbs California and the Western United States.