Worsening Fires , Threaten California's , Prized Forests.<br />Fox News reports that intense fires in recent years have altered <br />landscapes around the world, threatening animal life, harming <br />water supplies and hindering the fight against climate change.<br />In California's Eldorado National Forest, <br />damage from recent wildfires <br />could be permanent. .<br />The state's changing climate has increased the <br />frequency of intense fires, while drought has <br />destroyed millions of trees or rendered them <br />"susceptible to disease and pests," Fox News reports.<br />In the past five years, California <br />has experienced 12 of <br />its largest 20 wildfires.<br />According to a recent study, <br />California has lost over 1,760 square miles <br />of the state's tree cover since 1985. .<br />We're losing them at <br />a rate... we can’t sustain, Brandon Collins, co-author and adjunct forestry professor <br />at the University of California, Berkeley, via Fox News.<br />Areas where mixed conifer <br />burned at high severity, <br />those are all areas that are <br />vulnerable to total forest loss, Christy Brigham, chief of resources management and science <br />at Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, via Fox News.<br />In 2020 and 2021, <br />wildfires wiped out almost <br />one-fifth of the state's giant sequoias. .<br />Last week, the National Park Service launched a project <br />to hopefully help the giant trees recover, which includes <br />the agency's largest planting of seedlings in a single grove.<br />Fox News reports that a recent study of 334 Western <br />wildfires found that conifer species were less <br />likely to regenerate amid increasing fire severity. .<br />Fox News reports that a recent study of 334 Western <br />wildfires found that conifer species were less <br />likely to regenerate amid increasing fire severity.
