LOS ANGELES (AP) — People across Los Angeles have worked for years to increase the number of trees that shade the pavement, provide a respite for people
FILE - Embers are blown off a burning tree as the Eaton Fire burns in Altadena, Calif., Jan. 8, 2025. LOS ANGELES — People across Los Angeles have worked for years to increase the number of trees that shade the pavement, provide a respite for people and even clean some air pollution. They’ve confronted increasing drought, bad tree-trimming and objections from some neighbors who resent the leaves and sap. Now they wonder what January’s fires have done to their efforts.
The air is still so bad that field crews cannot yet go out and work safely. When they do, he said, they expect to to find young trees snapped, broken or dried out. Replanting trees in burned neighborhoods is harder now because of climate change, said Will Berleson, a professor at USC’s Department of Earth Sciences and researcher with the university’s Urban Trees Initiative. Even though many of the city’s mature trees might only be 30 or 40 years old, they “started growing at times when it was not as hot and didn’t have these kinds of wet and dry fluctuations that we seem to be seeing now,” he said.
Thomas, who grew up in Altadena, has family members who lost homes to the Eaton Fire. His brother’s home burned, but the five coast live oaks in his backyard survived. Berleson added that it will take a long time for neighborhoods to look like what they did before the fires.
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