Biggest Private Sequoia Grove To Be Preserved In Conservation Deal

"ALDER CREEK GROVE, Tulare County — The all-terrain vehicle cut through heavy brush, bounced over rocks and sliced through the undergrowth as it rumbled up a steep trail toward a meadow dominated by giant sequoia trees high in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains.

The tawny goliaths were among nearly 500 old-growth trees poking above the misty forest at Alder Creek Grove, the largest privately owned sequoia forest in the world and a remote oasis virtually unknown to the general public."

Peter Fimrite reports for the San Francisco Chronicle September 17, 2019.