The California Drought Is So Bad, It Might Be Killing The Giant Sequoia

[Xithras]

20. Doesn't really work that way.

Most of the Giant Sequoia groves are located in the Sierra's ABOVE the dams that capture water for ag (there are a handful of reservoirs above them, but they are small and generally hold water for electricity generation and not ag). Moving water from the reservoirs to the groves would require the construction of some kind of system to pump the water uphill and back into the forests it originally ran out from. While it's theoretically possible, it would take years to build the infrastructure to pull it off.

And trucking the water back uphill to water them by hand doesn't really work either. There are tens of thousands of Giant Sequoia's spread out over around 70 groves, and the vast majority don't have trails or roads anywhere near them. Cutting new trails and roads would not only permanently destroy the wildland areas where the trees are located, but would encourage more visitors to the groves which would cause even more damage,

It's a nice idea, but it's unworkable.