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?
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?
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!!!!
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.
TMT....Too Many Trees...
102 million dead trees? Really...did they count the dead trees? I counted 101.999 million trees...I guess they’ll have to count them again...
They also said it started in 2010 2 years BEFORE THE DROUGHT.
Undocumented matchsticks...
Trees come and trees go - hate to see woods laid bare but it's part of the cycle of Mother Earth as God built her.