Dataset contains 32 terrestrial lidar scans of conifer forests and associated shapefile of locations in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National parks from the summer of 2022. These scans were co-located within field plots from a larger ongoing U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) project collecting wildfire fuels and forest structure data (informally known as the Fire and Fuels Project). These data can also be found in a USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) database named IntELiMon (https://dmsdata.cr.usgs.gov/lidar-monitoring/viewer/).