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But one of our primetime producers with portuguese roots says some european landowners dont have the money for forest maintenance. it is costly. instead of paying a fine for not maintaining the underbrush, they will torch it instead. the producer says it is common knowledge. last year in portugal cnn reports two firefighters were arrested for setting forest fires in order to give their fire company more work. cha ching. one about here in america? remember the awful wildfires in yosemite last yea...

Several trail clearing and maintenance projects are being planned on the Bitterroot National Forest in July.

>> what i see is a lot of these little, baby giant sequoias that have sprouted up since the fire happened. >> without an urgent response to the climate crisis and increased forest maintenance, experts worry more of the once seemingly impervious sequoias will be lost. >> the biggest worry for me is we have two fires burning right now that are threatening groves that we have not been able to treat. the risk is still there. >> reporter: stephanie elam, cnn in the sierra, nevada, mountains. >> well,...

Take root. >> what i see have a lot of these baby giants that have sprouted up since the fire happened. >> without an urgent response to the climate crisis, and increased forest maintenance, experts worry more of the once seemingly impervious sequoias will be lost. >> the biggest worry for me is we have two fires burning right now that are threatening groves we have not been able to treat. the risk is still there. >> cnn in the sierra nevada mountains. >> and then theres the battle on the tennis...

Naturally. >> reporter: on land owned by the save the redwoods league, we hiked out to see just how deadly the cassel fire was here. >> for us to see 10% to 14% of the total of giant sequoias alive killed in one year, in one fire, theres nothing to compare that to. >> reporter: yet fire in and of itself is not the enemy of the giant sequoia. >> their cones open up. their seeds start to germinate after a fire. >> reporter: so near those lost giants, where the fire wasnt too intense, small shoots ...

Year, theres nothing to compare that to. >> reporter: yet fire in and of itself is not the enemy of the giant sequoia. >> their cones open up, their seeds start to germinate after a fire. >> reporter: so near those lost giants where the fire wasnt too intense, small shoots of hope take root. >> what i see is a lot of these little baby giant sequoias that have sprouted up since the fire happened. >> reporter: without an urgent response to the climate crisis and increased forest maintenance, exper...

Absolutely. the fire in california where i was, if you looked at the floor of the fire, they have trees that were fallen. they did no forest management, no forest maintenance and you could take a match like this and light a tree trunk when that thing is laying there for more than 14 months, its a massive problem in california." sometimes its amusing to hear the nonsense that comes from the gut or the brain of this president. if you care about the life of this planet, our future, our childrens ...

And in other places in this world, including russia, including just many other places the air is incredibly dirty. when youre talking about an atmosphere, oceans are very small and it blows over and it sails over. i mean, we take thousands of tons of garbage off our beaches all the time that comes over from asia. it just flows right down the pacific. it flows. and we say where does this come from? and it takes many people to start off with. number two, if you go back and look at articles they ta...