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Volunteers fight to restore California’s dying kelp forests

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Source: East Bay Express

This article contains a hard truth. And hope. And now, here’s the news: Within two years—dating back to 2014—70% of our orange-brown kelp forests died along a 520-mile stretch of coast, from Monterey, California, to Cape Arago in southern Oregon. Closer in—along the continuous coastal counties of Marin, Sonoma and Mendocino—95% of the bull kelp […]

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