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Drought And Beetle Infestation Killing California Forests – Capital Public Radio News

By Garry Rogers @Garry_Rogers

Drought And Beetle Infestation Killing California Forests – Capital Public Radio News

California’s drought is having a devastating effect on its forests — 20 million dead trees and counting, according aerial surveys. And the drought has a partner in crime — the pine beetle.

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Logging, livestock grazing, mining, recreation, and now climate change.  We’ve seem to have finally hit on a way to erase the forests.


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