Amid record-setting California wildfires, the dry forest burned, destroying hundreds of years of growth. Can a few thousand new plantings make up for what was lost?
in the Mojave Desert and burned about 1.3 million Joshua trees, leaving behind a standing graveyard of the iconic trees.
Drew Kaiser, a botanist with the Mojave National Preserve, watched the habitat burn in real time and thought to himself, “What do I do? It’s one of the densest, largest Joshua tree forests in the world.”
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