• Giant Sequoia Trees

    Sequoia & Kings Canyon

    National Parks California

  • Road Construction Delays in Sequoia NP through Mid-Aug. (if entering/exiting via Hwy. 198)

    Expect 20-minute to 1-hour delays on weekdays and 20-minute delays on weekends along main road through parks. Weeknight closures with one pass through the construction zone at 11:30 p.m. See link to schedule and map or call 559-565-3341 (press 1, 1, 1,). More »

  • 22-foot Vehicle Length Limit in Sequoia National Park

    Planning to see the "Big Trees" in Sequoia National Park? If you enter/exit via Hwy. 198, all vehicles must be less than 22 feet in length. Even vehicles towing trailers must be less than 22 feet in combined length. Longer vehicles must enter at Hwy. 180. More »

  • Road Conditions in the Parks

    For the latest road and weather conditions, call 559-565-3341 (press 1, 1, 1) More »

Initiatives

The SSCC has generated a list of initiative ideas (see below) to provide critical knowledge, understanding, and tools regarding agents of change and potential response actions. Several of these ideas have been crafted into formal funding proposals. The "alternative fire management futures" initiatives is in progress.

Strategic Framework Goal 1: Detection and Attribution

  • Coordinated Regional Monitoring Strategies - Tree Population Dynamics and Pacific Fisher Populations

Strategic Framework Goal 2: Forecasting Future Conditions

  • Alternative Fire Management Futures (in progress)
  • Comparison & Integration of Climate Adaptation Projects

Strategic Framework Goal 3: Tools and Actions

  • Both projects under goal 2 also address goal 3
  • Kaweah Watershed Coordinated Restoration Initiative
  • Enabling forest restoration goals via ecologically managed biomass generation, a cost-benefit analysis

Strategic Framework Goal 4: Communication

  • Information Clearinghouse for Shared Learning
  • Education & Outreach Initiative

Integrative Across Goals

  • Reevaluate invasive plant programs and practices under alternative climate futures
  • Investigate the vulnerability of blue oak woodlands to climate change and develop adaptive management guidelines

Did You Know?

Cave formation.

The small gravity-defying cave formations found in Sequoia and Kings Canyon caves are known as helictites. They form due to the capillary action of acidic solutions and are composed of the minerals calcite and aragonite.