Posted on 11/18/2016 4:41:13 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The California drought has killed more than 102 million trees in a die-off of forests that increases the risk of catastrophic wildfires and other threats to humans, officials said Friday.
The latest aerial survey by the U.S. Forest Service shows there are 36 million more dead trees since May in the state and there has been a 100 percent increase since 2015.
“These dead and dying trees continue to elevate the risk of wildfire, complicate our efforts to respond safely and effectively to fires when they do occur and pose a host of threats to life and property,” U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...
Too bad the dead trees can’t be harvested.
You know? If you took those desalination facilities and pumped the water inland you can grow more trees. I blame global warming on California. If they kept those trees alive all that co2 could have been absorbed.
What is the point of the USFS if not to harvest renewable CO2 sinks and provide quality masts for the Navy?
Yeah, I think dead trees can be harvested. Beatle kill dead trees in Colorado were made into furniture and wood siding. At Berry College in north West Georgia, there was a drought. A logging company was brought in to harvest the trees that the dry climate would not support. After one million dollars profit for the college, there were still plenty of trees around. Solutions are all ways around.
102 million exactly.....
You will note that these “forest” disasters always occur in USFS, BLM, Interior, Agriculture, etc. (state and federal) controlled lands.
Obama’s Fault.
So where are the protesters?
The EPA forced the states to dump untold amounts of water to try to save a 2” fish instead of allowing them to divert it for irrigation.
How many trees are there in CA? Maybe there was too many.
Hint: there’s always a private sector solution!
Some lumbering might help cut back on fires, as well as giving people jobs and reducing the cost of housing.
Should read the Democrats, and their lousy management of water resources killed off 100 million trees. They didn’t manage the drought by preparing for the drought. Irresponsible Democrats eff’d up again.
Perhaps if California had fewer illegals, fewer of those tall non-native king palm trees, and fewer idiots wanting to save the smelt, there would be more water to go around.
At the end of the article, “People assume the tally amounts to too many dead trees, but fire suppression has created unnaturally green forests with far too little wildfire and dead trees, said Chad Hanson, a forest ecologist at Earth Island Institute’s John Muir Project.”
“We don’t want too much and we don’t want too little,” he said. “This is not too much.”
This is a click bait type of article. They headline with what sounds like a terrible disaster, but they end with a statement that it is no big deal. And there is no good reason these trees couldn’t be harvested other than eco-madness.
Mexican drug gangs divert creeks to marijuana farms, parching the whole environment.
DEPORT!!!!
Nope. California will not allow removal of dead trees.
The trees were allowed to die by the forest service plain and simple. By not allowing selective harvesting the forests have become choked and weak instead of healthy and vital.
Nope. California will not allow removal of dead trees.
Not true. I just signed a release to the state to remove several trees from one of my properties.
Several neithbors also removing their own. I took out 40 trees at my residence.
All California.
All Ponderosa Pines.
TMT....Too Many Trees...
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