California tree carnage: A decade of drought and fire killed a third of Sierra Nevada forests

Admirers of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains are familiar with the swaths of blackened trees flanking its sprawling green forest ranges. A new University of California, Berkeley study quantifies that devastation, finding nearly a third of southern Sierra conifer forests have died in the last decade.


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Source: Phys.org