California’s big trees are disappearing. A new study has found that the number of trees larger than two feet in diameter has decreased by 50 percent throughout 46,000 square miles of California forests. While it’s convenient to blame logging and housing for their disappearance, the truth is that water shortages and climate change might be the real culprit. To learn more about the decline of California’s large trees and what it means, click here.

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities is celebrating its ninth anniversary. Dedicated to the conservation and sustainable development of working forests, the Endowment is the largest public charity in the nation. Working with public and private partners, the Endowment seeks to ensure Americans benefit from the products and services provided by our forests. To learn more about the Endowment, click here.

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Kentucky will use bloodhounds to help prevent wildfires. For the second year in a row, Kentucky will use bloodhounds to catch arsonists during the fall wildfire season that runs from October 1 through December 15. Teaming up with the Kentucky State Police arson investigators and their specially trained bloodhounds, the Kentucky Division of Forestry hopes to curtail human-started wildfires with rigorous investigation. For more on this story, click here.