The Washburn Fire burning near Yosemite National Park’s famed Mariposa Grove has grown to nearly 1,600 acres — threatening the park’s largest stand of sequoia trees.
appears to show the grove’s main trailhead alongside — or just inside — the fire boundary, along with a few trails in the area. Still, other areas of the grove appear to have been spared.
Still, it remains unclear exactly how much of the grove has burned, and whether any infrastructure in the area has been affected. Temperatures in the area are expected to be in the mid-80s on Sunday – roughly average for this time of year, Barlow said. However, they could reach into the 90s on Monday and Tuesday.
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