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No.1 California’s Forests: Where Have All the Big Trees Gone? They’ve gone to logging and housing—but especially to climate change, says a new study. By?Warren Cornwall,?National Geographic PUBLISHED?JANUARY 19, 2015 (There are a lot fewer big trees in California than there were in the 1930s.) California has lost half its big trees since the 1930s, according to?a study to be published Tuesday?in the?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences—and climate change seems to be a major factor. The number of trees larger than two feet in diameter has declined by 50 percent on more than 46,000 sq