WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), co-chair of the Senate Wildfire Caucus, and John Curtis (R-Utah) introduced the Save Our Sequoias Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation to protect giant sequoias from the growing threat of wildfires, insects, and disease. Representatives Vince Fong (R-Calif.-20) and Scott Peters (D-Calif.-50) introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives.
Giant sequoias, the world's largest trees, are found in roughly 70 groves across 37,000 acres in California. Over the last century, dangerous fuel buildups around giant sequoia groves have led to massive destruction from increasingly intense wildfires. In the las...