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The state’s proposed Forest Carbon Plan aims to double efforts to thin out young trees and clear brush in parts of the forest.

该州提出的森林碳计划旨在加倍努力，在森林的部分区域疏伐幼树并清除灌木丛。

But the remaining trees draw a greater share of the available moisture, so they grow and thrive, restoring the forest’s capacity to pull carbon from the air.

然而，剩下的树木会占据更多的可用水分，因此它们生长得更好，恢复森林从空气中吸收碳的能力。

Healthy trees are also better able to fend off insects.

健康的树木也更能抵御害虫的侵袭。

Even in the event of a fire, fewer trees are consumed.

即使发生火灾，被烧毁的树木也会更少。

Already, since 2010, drought and insects have killed over 100 million trees in California, most of them in 2016 alone, and wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres.

截至目前，自2010年以来，干旱和害虫已导致加利福尼亚州超过一亿棵树死亡，其中大部分发生在2016年，而野火已烧毁了数十万英亩的土地。