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Foresters tally 6.3 billion dead trees standing in the burning US West

By ​Dan Elliott and Peter Banda

Dan Elliott, newsman, and Peter Banda, video journalist, Denver, for their reporting that showed there are more than 6.3 billion dead trees around the West fueling this year’s wildfires. http://bit.ly/2xQRQzZ

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By The Associated Press

SEPT. 15, 2017

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