Over the past decade or so, California’s forests took a beating as more than 170 million trees died, many weakened by drought and extreme heat, and killed off by beetles and disease. Others, destroyed by high severity fires.

Now that we have two wet winters on the books, soils are saturated and the snowpack is sufficiently dense, we may start to see some decent recovery. 

<p>Over the past decade or so, California’s forests took a beating as more than 170 million trees died, many weakened by drought and extreme heat, and killed off by beetles and disease. Others, destroyed by high severity fires.</p>
<p>Now that we have two wet winters on the books, soils are saturated and the snowpack is sufficiently dense, we may start to see some decent recovery. </p>

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