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Meet the Renegade Tree Climbers Saving the Sequoias

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When John Muir sauntered through the condensed grove of what is now known as Sequoia National Park, he would have never envisioned the devastation that has occurred since 2011. In this story from bioGraphic, The Last Tree Standing shares the work of Leaf to Landscape, an ecology research study sponsored by UC Berkeley's Dawson Research Lab. The study is seeking out how water shortage has caused the death of 102 million trees in this short span of time.

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