California has lost over 1,760 square miles—nearly 7%—of its tree cover since 1985, according to a recent study.
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Dead pines, firs, and cedars stretch as far as the eye can see. Fire burned so hot that soil was still barren in places more than a year later. Granite boulders were charred and flaked from the inferno. Long, narrow indentations marked the graves of fallen logs that vanished in smoke.
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After wildfires in 2020 and 2021 wiped out up to about a fifth of all giant sequoias — once considered almost fireproof — the National Park Service last week embarked on a controversial project to help the mighty trees recover with its largest planting of seedlings a single grove.
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As usual the editors have to slap a clickbait title on an otherwise reasonable article. The Sierra Nevada faces challenges but redwoods are not going extinct.
The title is the only mention of the redwoods in the entire article. OP, please don’t post clickbait.
Sequoias are redwoods.