Sick-quoias
No, according to scientists, they’re not. This drought is stressing them out as well. This is especially a stressful time for the sequoias in Sequoia National Park. There leaves are browning, when they should still be green. These trees are some of the oldest living things in the world. In fact, some of them are up to …show more content…
They are climbing the trees that have the more browned foliage on them, and taking samples to test. They are also increasing the amount of times that they gather the information of the humidity and the temperature in the upper canopy of the trees. This will help them find out which groves need more sunlight and therefore need to go through a thinning process. This means that they will have a controlled burn so more sun can get through the darker areas. This burn will also help direct the underground water to the trees that need it the most. The hopeful news about the sequoias is that this severe lack of precipitation is not causing a large amount of them to die, unlike other trees in the same