Sequoia & Kings Canyon News

The National Park Service wants to poison trout in some high-country lakes and streams to save a native species of frog. But some outdoor and environmental groups are worried. The trout were planted years ago by wildlife agencies in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. They eat mountain yellow-legged frogs, contributing to a 90% decline in the species throughout the Sierra.A preliminary project to eradicate trout from 11 lakes in the two parks since 2001 has yielded dramatic results: Yellow-legged frogs have made spectacular rebounds at these lakes.

The National Park Service Monday named Jeff Bradybaugh, a 27-year veteran of the agency, as acting superintendent of Sequoia and King Canyon national parks. Bradybaugh comes from the top post at Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in Arizona, where he served for three and a half years.

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It was a small mistake, one that the campers would laugh about and remedy the next day with a trip to the store.Someone in the party of 40 people from Southern California had left the door to their campsite's bear-proof food locker open overnight. Two bears walked in to the site and gorged on marshmallows, potato chips, steak, bacon, chocolate, sour cream and cheese.

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif.

After more than three decades working at more than a half-dozen national parks across the country, and the last four years at the helm of Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks, Superintendent Craig Axtell will 

A 19-year-old Malibu man died in a fall Monday near Tokopah Falls in Sequoia National Park.Kevin Trevor Ro

Lantern tours of the General Sherman Tree in Sequoia 

Last year was a trying time for Sequoia National Park's Crystal Cave as separate incidents kept shutting it down during the tourist season: Live dynamite from the 1930s was discovered, an outdated 

When Congress created an additional 2 million acres of wilderness Wednesday, it brought to a close one of California's more memorable conservation sagas: the fight over a chiseled High Sierra valley called Mineral King.

A bill that would have added around one million acres of land to the National Wilderness System, including 280,000 acres in California,

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Sequoia National Park officials have a mystery on their hands. An abandoned campsite complete with gear and food was discovered at an elevation above 7,000 feet near Twin Lakes. No identification from the person who set up the site has been found.

Two Colorado State University researchers have written a playbook that fire agencies can use to effectively attack the massive wildfires that plague the country, particularly in the western United States.

A weak storm may bring a dusting of snow to the upper elevations in Tulare County. The National Weather Service is expecting snow for the mountains above 9,000 feet on Saturday night, with the snow level dropping to 7,000 feet early Sunday morning.