Caught Green Handed: US Forest Officials Misleading the Public About Natural Sequoia Regeneration After Fire.

It doesn't get clearer than this.

This just up from the John Muir Project, Our Public Lands Podcast, Western Watersheds Project and Wilderness Watch. If you’ve been wondering what lies behind the incessant messaging about “forest health,” “restoration” and “fuels reduction” coming from our nation’s land-management agencies, this 24 minute film will blow your eyes wide open.

Here is the introduction, with a couple screen shots:

In 2020 and 2021, the Castle and KNP Complex fires burned through Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park and Giant Sequoia National Monument in California, igniting a government and media firestorm.

The National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service claimed that seedling plantings and logging operations in the groves would be necessary to save them — or sequoia trees would not regenerate on their own.

In June 2025, a team of researchers visited Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park and found something remarkable…

Here again is the link.

And following are a couple images illustrating the difference between natural regeneration and forest “restoration.”

Thanks for taking the time to watch this. Please share far and wide.

Super-abundant giant sequoia regeneration deep inside the large crown fire patch in Redwood Mountain Grove | Photo by Doug Bevington, June 19, 2025

“Restoration” logging in the Packsaddle Grove, within the Giant Sequoia National Monument, burned in the 2020 Castle Fire. Photo by John Muir Project.

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