US to plant 1 billion trees as climate change kills forests
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August 01
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The Biden administration announced on Monday that the government will plant more than one billion trees across millions of acres of
in the United States' West, as officials struggle to combat the nation's forests' increasing toll from wildfires, insects, and other
.
Destructive fires that burned too hot for forests to regrow naturally in recent years have far outpaced the government's
. According to officials, this has resulted in a backlog of 4.1 million acres (1.7 million hectares) in need of replanting.
To clear the backlog and meet future demands,
estimates that nurseries will need to quadruple their
.
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What's the government's capacity to plant new trees currently?
A backlog of 4.1 million acres
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1.7 million hectares
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What is the estimation by the United States Agriculture Department?
What have far outpaced the government's capacity to plant new trees?
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