California replants 71,000 trees across massive Ranch Fire scar
Volunteers and the US Forest Service have planted 71,000 conifer seedlings in California's Mendocino National Forest to restore land damaged by the 2018 Ranch Fire. The project involved extensive site preparation, including the removal of hazard trees and controlled burns to ensure forest health.
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Active forest management and reforestation are critical strategies for mitigating the long-term environmental impacts of increasingly severe wildfires.
Eight years after California's Ranch Fire destroyed vast stretches of forest, efforts to restore the landscape are now taking shape, Defence Visual Information Distribution Service reported. This spring, the US Forest Service, along with nonprofit organisations and volunteers, planted 71,000 conifer seedlings in just eight days across part of the burn scar in the Mendocino National Forest. The work took place east of the communities of Nice and Lucerne in north-central California.The effort is part of a long-term effort to restore areas damaged by the Ranch Fire, which was part of the Mendocino Complex Fire in 2018. The fire burned 459,123 acres in 53 days, making it the largest wildfire in California's history at that time.Since then, local communities, forest managers and nonprofit groups have worked together to help the forest recover.
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