There are now 66 million dead trees in California's forests due to several years of drought and native bark beetles, creating a "catastrophic" wildfire threat - or so claims U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. While Vilsack's assertion may resonate with many in the general public because it makes intuitive sense, it simply isn't true.
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