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June 23, 2016

Drought kills 66M Sierra Nevada trees

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Officials say the number of trees in California's Sierra Nevada forests killed by drought and a bark beetle epidemic has dramatically increased since last year.

The U.S. Forest Service announced Wednesday its newest figures. It found 66 million dead trees, up 65 percent from the last count in the central and southern Sierra hardest hit by the epidemic.


 
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