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USGS Field Ecologist Philip van Mantgem is conducting a long term study of tree mortality and demographics throughout the West. One goal of the project is to learn how to better manage forests for tree health during the protracted droughts that climate models predict will become only more severe. Photographed in Redwood National Forest, May 20, 2016.

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USGS Field Ecologist Philip van Mantgem is conducting a long term study of tree mortality and demographics throughout the West. One goal of the project is to learn how to better manage forests for tree health during the protracted droughts that climate models predict will become only more severe. Photographed in Redwood National Forest, May 20, 2016.