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One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today . When wildfires tore through the Sierra Nevada in 2020 and 2021, they burned thousands of giant sequoias at rates not seen for millennia . But the destruction would have been far worse had the trees not undergone prescribed burns, according to a new UC Davis study published in Nature Communications . “We estimate that giant sequoias with those prescribed burn treatments within the last 10 years ended up being about four times more likely to survive,” said Dan Dixon, who led the study as a UC Davis postdoctoral researcher. In addition to being beloved namesakes of a popular national park, California's sequoias can store significant amounts of carbon , absorbing it from the atmosphere and making the trees a positive force in a changing climate.
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They then used neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence, to identify whether the trees were living or dead.
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One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today . When wildfires tore through the Sierra Nevada in 2020 and 2021, they burned thousands of giant sequoias at rates not seen for millennia . But the destruction would have been far worse had the trees not undergone prescribed burns, according to a new UC Davis study published in Nature Communications . “We estimate that giant sequoias with those prescribed burn treatments within the last 10 years ended up being about four times more likely to survive,” said Dan Dixon, who led the study as a UC Davis postdoctoral researcher. In addition to being beloved namesakes of a popular national park, California's sequoias can store significant amounts of carbon , absorbing it from the atmosphere and making the trees a positive force in a changing climate.
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