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Can a fire-ravaged forest of Joshua trees be restored?
In August 2020, the Dome Fire burned through more than 40,000 acres of Joshua tree forest on the Mojave National Preserve, leaving a graveyard of blackened trees. An estimated 1.3 million Joshua trees were lost. But conservationists are determined to help repair this fragile ecosystem. As part of that undertaking, in December 2021, the US National Park Service, along with several volunteers, began an effort to plant thousands of Joshua tree seedlings. Interviews with NPS project organizers, volunteers and experts including botanist Bruce Baldwin of the University of California, Berkeley, highlight the Joshua tree’s ecological importance as well as the challenges to its recovery in the face of climate change.
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