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In 2014, California's King Fire blackened 400 square kilometers of forest, massive erosion followed.

2014年，加州国王大火烧毁了400平方公里的森林， 随后发生了大规模的水土流失。

One of Placer County's two reservoirs filled with sediment and had to be dredged, says county water chief Andy Fecko.

普莱瑟县主管安迪·费科表示，该县两座水库中有一座因泥沙淤积而不得不进行疏浚。

Every time we do that, it's a five to seven million dollar cost that you incur.

每次我们进行疏浚，都要花费500万到700万美元。

And you're out of business during the whole time when you're trying to clear those facilities out. And so we incurred those costs several years in a row.

当你试图清理那些设施时，你一直处于停业状态。我们连续几年支付了这些费用。

And he worried about the county's other reservoir, French Meadows, just a few kilometers away.

他还担心几公里外的另一座水库——法国草地水库。

So it was one of these watersheds that was very much under threat of a high-intensity wildfire.

正是这些流域之一受到了一场高强度野火的威胁。

These devastating wildfires are on the rise in the west, experts say, as climate change dries out the forests.

专家表示，随着气候变化导致森林变得干燥，这些毁灭性的野火在西部地区正日益增多。

And a century of misguided management has left them overgrown and extra flammable.

一个世纪的错误管理让它们杂草丛生，变得格外易燃。

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