US to plant 1 billion trees as climate change kills forests

Contract workers hired by the State of California carry giant sequoia seedlings to be planted on a hillside in Mountain Home State Demonstration Forest outside Springville, Calif., on April 26, 2022. The Biden administration on Monday, July 25, 2022, said it plans to replant trees on millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands as officials struggle to counter the increasing toll on the nation's forests from wildfires, insects and other manifestations of climate change. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)