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Superpower and Sequoia Forge Partnership for Enhanced Preventive Health Solutions for Employers

Superpower partners with Sequoia to revolutionize preventive health for employers, emphasizing a proactive approach that engages employees earlier in their health journeys.

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Fighting Fire With Fire Could Save Giant Sequoias

Iconic trees in areas with controlled burns are four times as likely to survive extreme wildfires. Giant sequoias, the enormous trees native only to the western slopes of California’s Sierra Nevada, can live for more than 3,000 years. Yet thousands died when the Castle Fire in 2020 and the KNP Complex Fire in 2021 swept through their groves. A new study suggests that controlled burns helped spare many others. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that sequoias in areas treated with prescribed fire during the previous decade were nearly four times as likely to survive those wildfires as untreated trees in the same groves. Prescribed fires are deliberately set and managed burns that reduce the material available to fuel a later wildfire. The study, published in Nature Communications, estimated that previous prescribed burns prevented about 1,900 sequoia deaths. Its simulations suggested that an additional 3,900 trees would likely have survived if every tree in the groves had received the treatment. Past burns help explain sequoia survival Decades of forest management made it possible to investigate that protection. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks have used prescribed fire in sequoia groves since the 1960s, operating what the study describes...