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Invasive Beetle Kills At Least 90,000 SoCal Trees: Can Indigenous Cultural Burns Help?

Tree limbs and tops began falling off century-old black oak trees on the La Jolla reservation in northern San Diego County around 2014 and nobody knew why. The die off was puzzling and tribal fire chief Wesley Ruise Jr. couldn’t remove the dead trees fast enough.

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Invasive Beetle Kills At Least 90,000 SoCal Trees: Can Indigenous Cultural Burns Help?

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