Prevent Sequoia Beetle Attack
Resource Managment & Science | Project
Fundraising Goal: $45,000

Our Goal: Raise $45,000 to monitor beetle activity in tree canopies and to pilot the use of pesticides to protect sequoia tissue. This work will augment $500k in funding provided to the Ancient Forest Society from Calfire to survey trees for signs of beetle attack.

The giant sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum, is a large, long-lived pioneer species found on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, growing in at least 75 scattered groves within mixed conifer forests. Mature giant sequoia trees, monarchs, can live to be thousands of years old, and until recently, their primary cause of death was falling over. 

Today, however, giant sequoias face three major threats:

• tree mortality in high-severity fires such as the KNP Complex Fire in 2021;
• being killed by drought-mediated insect attacks (between 20 and 30 monarch sequoias have died this way within Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks); and
  
• death from other unanticipated impacts of climate change, such as altered hydrology, snowpack, or other factors.

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