California wildfire fallout: Timber industry confronted by too many dead trees, warns of damaged forests

San Francisco Chronicle

This year’s mega-fires may be contained, the fire fronts extinguished and late flareups tamed by early season rain.

But a secondary disaster has only just begun among the acres and acres of dead trees left behind. While the giant firestorms of 2017 and 2018 destroyed more homes and killed more people, the wildfires in 2020 and 2021 killed more trees.

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