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    129 Million Dead Trees in California

    Metadata Updated: July 23, 2025

    Welcome to our Story Map about California Tree Mortality.Since 2010 over 127 million trees have died due to drought and bark beetles.  The hardest hit region is the Southern and Central Sierra including the counties of Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Fresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Placer, Tulare, and Tuolumne where 96.4 million dead trees are located.

    This Story Map will take you through the history of the tree mortality epidemic and present solutions for affected landowners.Publish Date: Version I; February 2018

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date July 23, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date July 23, 2025
    Publisher CAL FIRE
    Maintainer
    Identifier 61bc5f54-45f6-4ef3-9248-4f514261f1c1
    Data First Published 2017-05-11T03:00:19.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2024-06-03T21:30:22.000Z
    Category Fire, Natural Resources
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 204f0169-dcd8-4ccc-9f12-b68b63caafdb
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 53b7a64d8d5c026eda464b8efb84183cd924ad6a304ac5c5fbd4227e6704c6f0
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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