Surviving a drought may help forests weather future dry spells
After a drought, California’s forests withstood a second one surprisingly well
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Conifer forests in California hurt by a severe drought in the late ’90s and early 2000s weathered a second severe dry spell about a decade later better than forests that hadn’t experienced the earlier drought, a new study finds.
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