Publication: L.A. Times

UCLA Expert: Park Williams: Associate Professor and Ladder Faculty, Department of Geography

Synopsis: Williams was featured examining the long-term future effects that climate change induced heat and drought will have on California’s forests.

UCLA News: So many of the state’s forests are full of trees that were established under wetter, cooler conditions, “it is therefore very likely that when vegetation comes back after these mass tree mortality events, we’ll get something different than what was there before,” Williams said.

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