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X-ray technology reveals California's forests are in for a radical transformation
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Flying above the Los Padres National Forest, Greg Asner and his team recorded drought-stressed trees. Photo: Carnegie Institution for Science
There is no saying which trees will die, but by [Biologist Greg Asner's] estimation the count statewide could be close to 120 million — as much as 20% of the state's forests...Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University who has been studying the California drought, is not surprised by Asner's numbers.
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