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U.S. to plant more trees on charred western landscape
BILLINGS (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday announced strategies to replant trees on thousands and thousands of acres of burned and dead woodlands as officers wrestle to counter the increasing toll on the nation’s forests from wildfires, bugs and other manifestations of local climate improve. Destructive fires in modern yrs that burned too hot for forests to swiftly regrow have significantly outpaced the government’s ability to replant trees. That’s developed a backlog of 4.1 million acres in require of replanting, officers mentioned. The U.S. Agriculture Section claimed it will have to quadruple the variety of tree seedlings developed by nurseries to get by the backlog and satisfy upcoming requirements.…