GREENVILLE, Calif. — From seed to sawmill, residents from Greenville, California, are pulling up their sleeves to rebuild their community after it was turned into ashes by the Dixie fire in July 2021.
There is a lack of sawmills in the state, an ongoing issue that has been leaving millions of area sawmills overloaded for years, and this has led to a slowdown in rebuilding Greenville. Without the sawmills, millions of trees killed in wildfires are unable to be processed for recycling.
With a backlog of 1.2 million acres of land in need of reforestation, the forest service is struggling to keep up with the frequent wildfires. The season during which cones fall at higher rates, according to geneticists, coincides with some of the largest fires in the area between July and October. It is during this time when the role of national forest geneticists becomes even more challenging — to hike into fire zones to collect cones.
“If we don't intervene in these large-scale fires, then they'll simply turn to brush and be prone to just repeated high severity fires that, in the end, won't serve anyone's interest. It won't provide water California needs, it won't store carbon, it won't make homes for animals, and they won't be very pleasant to be in or around,” Rojas said.
She said foresters need to control the competing vegetation so the newly planted trees can live and grow.
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