MaryBeth Keifer Nathan L. Stephenson William Kaage Jeffrey Manley 2001 <p>Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, established in 1890, consist of 863,741 acres (349,551 ha) of Sierra Nevada foothills, mid-elevation conifer forest, and high-elevation alpine environment. The parks contain 36 giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) groves, including the largest known tree, the General Sherman. Ninety-four percent of the parklands is in designated or proposed wilderness (fig. 1), with conditions resembling roadless areas in national forests. </p> application/pdf en U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Restoring fire to wilderness: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks article