President Biden is taking steps to restore national forests that have been devastated by wildfires, drought and blight, using an Earth Day visit to Seattle to sign an executive order protecting some of the nation's largest and oldest trees.
The order requires federal agencies to inventory mature trees, identify threats to them, such as wildfire and climate change, and develop policies to safeguard them.
On Earth Day, President Joe Biden will sign an executive order to preserve a key buffer against climate change: old-growth trees. The order directs federal land managers to identify and protect these trees from threats like wildfires that have devastated national forests.
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