Editing Sequoiadendron giganteum (section)

===Artificial groves===
[[File:Lake Fulmor (45623460051).jpg|thumb|[[Lake Fulmor]], featuring a small grove of giant sequoia trees (top center)]]
In 1974, a group of giant sequoias was planted by the [[United States Forest Service]] in the [[San Jacinto Mountains]] of [[Southern California]] in the immediate aftermath of a wildfire that left the landscape barren. The giant sequoias were rediscovered in 2008 by botanist Rudolf Schmid and his daughter Mena Schmidt while hiking on Black Mountain Trail through Hall Canyon. [[Black Mountain Grove (Southern California)|Black Mountain Grove]] is home to over 150 giant sequoias, some of which stand over {{convert|6.1|m|ft|abbr=on}} tall. This grove is not to be confused with the [[Black Mountain Grove]] in the southern Sierra. Nearby [[Lake Fulmor#Flora|Lake Fulmor Grove]] is home to seven giant sequoias, the largest of which is {{convert|20|m|ft|abbr=on}} tall. The two groves are located approximately {{convert|175|mi|km|abbr=on}} southeast of the southernmost naturally occurring giant sequoia grove, [[Deer Creek Grove]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Schmidt|first1=Rudolf|last2=Mena|first2=Schmidt|title=Naturalization of Sequoiadendron giganteum (Cupressaceae) in Montane Southern California|date=2012|journal=Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany|volume=30|issue=1|pages=19–32|doi=10.5642/ALISO.20123001.04|s2cid=84948955|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Schmidt|first1=Rudolf|last2=Mena|first2=Schmidt|date=2013|title=Sequoiadendron giganteum (Cupressaceae) at Lake Fulmor, Riverside County, California.|url=http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1110&context=aliso|journal=Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany|volume=30|issue=2|pages=103–107|via=Scholarship @ Claremont|access-date=2019-11-27|archive-date=2020-10-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020211515/https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1110&context=aliso|url-status=live}}</ref>

It was later discovered that the [[United States Forest Service]] had planted giant sequoias across Southern California. However, the giant sequoias of [[Black Mountain Grove (Southern California)|Black Mountain Grove]] and nearby [[Lake Fulmor#Flora|Lake Fulmor Grove]] are the only ones known to be reproducing and propagating free of human intervention. The conditions of the [[San Jacinto Mountains]] mimic those of the [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada]], allowing the trees to naturally propagate throughout the canyon.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gizmodo.com/these-sequoia-trees-are-thriving-175-miles-south-of-the-1579409426|title=These Sequoia Trees Are Thriving 175 Miles South of Their Natural Range|website=Gizmodo|date=21 May 2014|first=Nathan|last=Masters|access-date=April 15, 2018|archive-date=8 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408205755/https://gizmodo.com/these-sequoia-trees-are-thriving-175-miles-south-of-the-1579409426|url-status=live}}.</ref>