• ‘Like a disaster movie’ – the film about the felling of California’s giant fire-poisoned sequoias

    ‘Like a disaster movie’ – the film about the felling of California’s giant fire-poisoned sequoias
    They’re 25 storeys tall and 2,000 years old, but these ancient trees are now a hazard. Uta Kögelsberger talks about winning a prestigious award for capturing the brutal fate of these gigantic natural wondersWe’re in a mountainous forest dense with growth, where soaring conifers lean, swing wildly and then crash to earth, as if in a choreographed routine. As the trees fall, they smash through the branches of their smaller neighbours, sending out shockwaves as they hit the ground.

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