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U.S. Will Plant One Billion Trees to Combat Climate Change
To help revitalize millions of acres of burned and damaged forests across the American West, the U.S. Department of Agriculture aims to plant more than one billion trees over the next decade. Wildfires and other issues have devastated U.S. woodlands in recent years, and Forest Service arborists can’t keep up with replanting lost trees. They’ve reforested just six percent of land damaged by fires, pests and extreme weather events, which has created a backlog of about 4.1 million acres.
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I wish they had given us a list of trees they chose. I've planted two since I moved here in 2018. A dwarf fig and a crab apple.