California’s Forests Are Burning Faster Than We Can Replant | Los Angeles News

Presented by The Plant Daddies — rare specimen trees, living art, and hand-carved limestone vessels and fountains for extraordinary spaces. Showrooms in Los Angeles and Irvine. Listeners of Los Angeles News Today receive 10% off with code LANEWS10. theplantdaddies.com/lanews California’s forests are burning faster than they can recover, risking half of the state’s forestland by 2071 if action isn’t dramatically scaled up. Climate change and a century of fire suppression have fueled megafires that leave ecosystems devastated—carbon sinks, clean water sources, and wildlife habitats in peril. While state and federal agencies have long underfunded reforestation, recent efforts to boost seed banks, staffing, and planting capacity are woefully inadequate, especially on federally managed lands that make up half the forest. Experts warn California, despite being relatively better off than other western states, is dangerously unprepared—without a massive, sustained emergency response, the future of its forests looks bleak. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/fc38eb08587b1f8e