That’s even more heartbreaking to me that we knew it and we couldn’t take action to protect it.

Christy Brigham

Then the Castle Fire happened and it was like, ‘Oh, my God,' we went from the warning sign to hair on fire. To lose 7,000 trees in one fire is crazy.

Christy Brigham

I’m not ready to give up on giant sequoias, this is a call to action to better protect the remaining old growth and make our Sierra Nevada forests wildfire resilient, because the fire's coming.

Christy Brigham

There were no seedlings. There were no needles. There were hardly any cones. Everything had been incinerated -- the entire canopies. It was a field of the world's largest burned up toothpicks.

Christy Brigham

My first reaction was to cry, my second reaction was to work with colleagues to submit grant proposals to fund additional forest treatments, prioritize groves for treatment, and work with other scientists and experts to increase the pace and scale of forest treatments to protect the remaining old-growth sequoias.

Christy Brigham