Sequoia Daw

[Anjali Reyome]

Comfort reigns at charming John Muir Lodge, a stately retreat in Grant Grove Village. It is perfectly located within walking distance of General Grant, the second-largest giant sequoia in the world. Choose a rustic Grant Grove timber or tent cabin, or stay at Cedar Grove Lodge, found in a canyon carved by a glacier at Cedar Grove Village.

Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks offer a unique playground for exploration like none other! From the towering giants of Sequoia and the heights of Moro Rock, to experiencing cascading waterfalls and meandering rivers, there is something for everyone to discover amidst these natural wonders.

Sequoia Parks Conservancy is built on decades of support for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. This legacy demonstrates a longstanding commitment and contribution to the parks and their surrounding communities, including the US Army Corps of Engineers at Lake Kaweah.

Sequoia Parks Conservancy is a key connection point with park visitors and provides important services, educational programs, and funding in support of park priorities. You too can be a champion for our parks.

When you give to Sequoia Parks Conservancy, you help us achieve a wide range of goals in the parks. Your generosity impacts the parks in tangible ways. When we work together, we succeed in preserving and protecting the parks we love.

The KNP Complex Fire Recovery Fund has already reached 60% of its $1 million goal. Your generous donation will help us cross the finish line to bring renewal to fragile ecosystems destroyed by the recent wildfires.

We strive to preserve some of the mightiest organisms on the planet, the giant sequoias, and the biodiversity of the vast Sierra Nevada. You can help preserve this magnificent species by donating to the Sequoia Conservation Fund.

The future stewardship of Sequoia and Kings Canyon Parks, requires meaningful outreach to future generations. Sequoia Parks Conservancy funds Rangers in the Classroom, summer internships, and other service-learning programs that support outdoor learning for K-12 schools in the San Joaquin Valley.

The mountain yellow-legged frog is an endangered species on the brink of completely disappearing from the parks. Restoring mountain yellow-legged frog populations is a high priority for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and Sequoia Parks Conservancy.

We work steadily, patiently, and enthusiastically to restore imperiled wildlife species, important habitats, and the natural processes that sustain them. In supporting Resource Management and Science, you, too, can be a park caretaker.

The endangered Sierra Nevada red fox has been detected in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks for the first time in a very long time. Your donation can help Wildlife Management ensure they have the proper equipment and funding to continue their critical work.

Sequoia Parks Conservancy provides financial and logistical support for vital programs that preserve park wildlife. Protecting black bears from human conflict, reintroducing Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep to the Sierra Nevada Crest, and recovering critical habitats for endangered species are some current projects funded by Sequoia Parks Conservancy.

Sequoia Parks Conservancy immediately launched the KNP Complex Fire Recovery Fund (The Big Give), rallying park enthusiasts, stewards, grantors, and conservationists to raise $1 million. Now, in January 2024, we proudly unveil the KNP Complex Fire Recovery Fund Impact Report, inviting you to witness the journey of resilience and restoration.

Sequoia Parks Conservancy Adventures Program is here to help you create a memorable journey in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. We will connect you to the biggest trees, the darkest skies, and the vast wilderness. Everything here is waiting. The only thing missing is you.

Sequoia Parks Conservancy is the nonprofit partner to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park. We fund and enable park projects and programs that protect, preserve, and provide access to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.

Sequoia is a genus of redwood coniferous trees in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae. The only extant species of the genus is Sequoia sempervirens in the Northern California coastal forests ecoregion of Northern California and Southwestern Oregon in the United States.[1][2] The two other genera in the subfamily Sequoioideae, Sequoiadendron and Metasequoia, are closely related to Sequoia. It includes the tallest trees, as well as the heaviest, in the world.

The name Sequoia was first published as a genus name by the Austrian botanist Stephan Endlicher in 1847.[4] However, he left no specific reasons for choosing that name, and there is no record of anyone else speaking to him about its origin.[citation needed]

Beginning in the 1860s, it was suggested that the name is a derivation from the Latin word for "sequence", since the species was thought to be a follower or remnant of massive ancient, extinct species, and thus the next in a sequence.[5]

However, in a 2012 article, author Gary Lowe argues that Endlicher would not have had the knowledge to conceive of Sequoia sempervirens as the successor to a fossil sequence, and that he more likely saw it, within the framework of his taxonomic arrangements, as completing a morphological sequence of species in regards to the number of seeds per cone scale.[5]

In 2017, Nancy Muleady-Mecham of Northern Arizona University, after extensive research with original documents in Austria, claimed to find a positive link to the person Sequoyah (the inventor of the Cherokee writing system) and Endlicher, as well as information that the use of the Latin sequor would not have been correct.[6] However there are debilitating limitations to the arguments presented in the 2017 article. The alleged positive link is based on a similarity in pronunciation of the words "Sequoyah" and "Sequoia": valid to persons that think in English, but not those that think in German or Latin. Endlicher could not have known how Sequoyah's name was pronounced in Cherokee since he did not have the opportunity to hear spoken Cherokee. The claimed use of Latin ignores Endlicher's philological background and familiarity with the Latin of the ancient manuscripts in the royal library on which he extensively published. Endlicher's Botanical Latin prefix in the genus name Sequoia was derived from the Latin verb "sequor", and was not a conjugation of the verb.[7]

Sequoia jeholensis is the oldest recorded member of the genus Sequoia (along with Sequoia portlandica, but this name is a nomen dubium), known from the Jiufotang Formation (Lower Cretaceous) and the Jiulongshan Formation (Middle Jurassic) of China.[8] By the late Cretaceous the ancestral sequoias were established in Europe, parts of China, and western North America.[citation needed] Comparisons among fossils and modern organisms suggest that by this period Sequoia ancestors had already evolved a greater tracheid diameter that allowed it to reach the great heights characteristic of the modern Sequoia sempervirens (coast redwood) and Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia).[citation needed]

Sequoia ancestors were not dominant in the tropical high northern latitudes, like Metasequoia, a redwood whose deciduous habit gave it a significant adaptive advantage in an environment with 3 months of continuous darkness.[3] However, there still was possibly prolonged range overlap between Sequoia and Metasequoia which could have led to hybridization events that created the modern hexaploid Sequoia sempervirens.[9][10] See also the metastudy of the geologic history of the giant sequoia and the coast redwood.[11]

A general cooling trend by the late Eocene and Oligocene reduced the northern ranges of ancestral Sequoia. By the end of the Miocene and beginning of the Pliocene, Sequoia fossils were morphologically identical to the modern Sequoia sempervirens.[9] Continued cooling in the Pliocene meant that Sequoia, which is extremely intolerant to frost due to the high water content of its tissues, also became locally extinct in response to the extreme cooling of Europe and Asia.[12] Pollen sampling of sediments found in Hungary indicates the local extinction of genus Sequoia approximately 2.7 million years ago in the first part of the Pliocene.[13] In western North America it continued to move south through coastal Oregon and California, surviving due to the abundant rainfall and mild seasons.[12] The Sierra Nevada orogeny further isolated Sequoia because the snowy mountain peaks prevented eastward expansion.[12] The Pleistocene and Holocene distributions are likely nearly identical to the modern S. sempervirens distributions.[citation needed]

Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California which specializes in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies across technology sectors.[1] As of 2022,[update] the firm had approximately US$85 billion in assets under management.[2][3]

Sequoia formed its first venture capital fund in 1974,[11][13] and was an early investor in Atari the next year.[14][15][16] In 1978, Sequoia became one of the first investors in Apple.[15][17][18] Partners Doug Leone and Michael Moritz assumed leadership of the firm in 1996.[14][19]

In 2012, Moritz took a step back from the day-to-day operations of the firm.[23] Leone became Global Managing Partner.[24][25] Jim Goetz led Sequoia's US business from 2012 until 2017, when he was succeeded by Roelof Botha.[26]

In October 2021, Sequoia announced it would implement a new fund structure for its U.S. and European business that would allow it to remain involved with companies after their public market debuts.[32][33][34]

In June 2023, Sequoia announced plans to break up into three entities citing complications running a decentralized global investment business in the middle of geopolitical tensions.[37] Following the separation, expected to complete by March 2024, the Chinese business led by Neil Shen would be called HongShan ("sequoia" in Mandarin) and the Indian and Southeast Asia arm would be named Peak XV Partners. The U.S. and Europe unit would retain the Sequoia name.[38] In July 2023, Sequoia announced to cut one-third of its talent staff as part of an organizational restructuring.[39] In October 2023, the United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party announced a probe into Sequoia Capital's investments in China.[40]

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