(Source: Barbara Boxer) Wednesday, November 4th 2015 Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today sent a letter to President Obama calling for federal assistance to address the worst epidemic of tree mortality in modern California history. 'Four long years of drought, along with ancillary effects from the drought such as the infestation of native bark beetles, have contributed to the death of millions of trees on federal, state, and private lands across California,' Senator Boxer wrote in the letter. The U.S. Forest Service has estimated that 22 million trees have...
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