Find out the latest in forest news in this week’s Forest Digest!

• An ‘Unprecedented’ 102 Million Trees Have Died In California’s Drought-Stricken Forests — Huffington Post
  In November, the U.S. Forest Service released data revealing that since 2010 nearly 102 million trees have died in the state of California alone, 62 million of those occurring just in 2016.
• Ascending One of the World’s Oldest, Tallest Trees for Science and the Views — Atlas Obscura
  With unprecedented tree death in the state of California, a group of researchers seek to study what this means for the world’s tallest trees, the giant sequoias.
• FISH GROW ON TREES? — org
  A fun look at how the health of riparian corridors and watersheds can help provide better habitats for fish who live in our rivers.
• New York City Mapped All of its Trees and Calculated the Economic Benefits of Every Single One — Archdaily.com
  New York City’s Department of Parks & Recreation created a program in 2015, called TreesCount!, to help educate children and adults understand the importance of urban forests.