California’s drought is over, but forests are still dying. Why?
While the historically wet year in California came as relief for the state’s drought-battered forests, large numbers of trees continue to die — especially in Lake Tahoe. … Forest Service officials say the wet year, while better than a dry one, did only so much to ease the long-term decline of California’s timberlands. Forests have been stressed by decades of fire suppression, which has left too many trees competing for too few resources, as well as by the warming climate.
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