California Can’t Replant Its Forests Fast Enough to Keep up with Wildfires

California can’t replant its forests fast enough to keep up with wildfires

California’s wildfires are destroying forests faster than the state can replant them, and federal cuts are making the gap worse. One expert says the crisis is barely known — even though it could reshape half the state’s forests by 2071.

California Wildfires Outpace Efforts to Replant Burned Forests

DAVIS, CALIFORNIA — Severe wildfires are destroying California forests faster than land managers can restore them, leaving millions of acres vulnerable to permanent conversion into brush and scrub. A draft reforestation plan estimates that since 2000, high-severity fires have removed 2.3 million acres of forest in areas where natural regrowth is unlikely without help. If current trends continue, researchers say California could lose up to half i…

California can't replant its forests fast enough to keep up with wildfires

California's wildfires are destroying forests faster than the state can replant them, and federal cuts are making the gap worse.

Wildfires are burning California compliance offset projects, research group warns

Wildfires currently burning in two forest offset projects, eligible for compliance under California’s Cap-and-Invest programme, are expected to incur more losses in the coming days, a carbon market research group warned Friday.