Joe Landeros plunged a shovel into the earth, poured water into the hole and carefully inserted a spiky green seedling.
Around him were icons of the California desert, felled by an enormous fire. Some of the Joshua trees were still standing but singed black. Some lay prone, their severed trunks like gaping wounds. Others had been reduced to piles of ash.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-15/joshua-trees-will-rise-again-in-fire-scorched-desert
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