Posted on 05/07/2017 7:28:33 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The trees that shade, cool and feed people from Ventura County to the Mexican border are dying so fast that within a few years it’s possible the region will look, feel, sound and smell much less pleasant than it does now.
“We’re witnessing a transition to a post-oasis landscape in Southern California,” says Greg McPherson, a supervisory research forester with the U.S. Forest Service who has been studying what he and others call an unprecedented die-off of the trees greening Southern California’s parks, campuses and yards.
Botanists in recent years have documented insect and disease infestations as they’ve hop-scotched about the region, devastating Griffith Park’s sycamores and destroying over 100,000 willows in San Diego County’s Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, for example
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Global Warming blame in 5...4...3...2...1...
1). It’s probably not true, but distorted and/or exaggerated.
2). Whichever, it will be attributed to climate change.
Gotcha by 4 seconds....:^))
Leni
Cue the graphic with the people running about yelling Oh Noes.
Plants don’t do that unless there’s absolutely no water. If a species dies down(not out), another is there to take its place.
Sounds like another scare moment by Al Gore.
I remember passing through Rocky Mountain National Park and there was a great die-off of the lodgepole pines. The ranger explained that they were all planted around the same time after logging, and they were just hitting their old age.
I wonder how much of this is the same - the trees were planted around the same time, and have just hit their time to die.
Weeping Willows are trash trees.
On a side note, in a few more years, they won’t be an Ash tree left in the state of Indiana due to the Emerald Ash Borer.
I’d like to know how and why they got here from NE Asia.
The sea levels are rising too. Within 15 years all of America except the Rocky Mountains and the Sierras will be underwater.
If you didn't know any better, it's almost as if forests weren't actually natural to the area...
That was a bad drought. They have to replant.
Exactly.... plant more trees. Every other state does this every year.
We’ve just got over an exceptionally long drought. Droughts weaken trees and make them more susceptible to insects. If we get a few more years of good rainfall they should recover. Not exactly rocket science.
Texas had the same thing happen and the bigger and older they are, the more prone to sudden die off they become under stress from drought. They’re also more susceptible to insects and various blights. They’re going to lose a lot of trees yet, some historic, but most will be little worse for wear in a few years assuming normal rainfall continues.
But it’s still illegal to remove the dead trees.
Not to worry, this summer all the plants that burst into life with the rains will dry out and the resulting wildfires will take care of the dead trees and sooooooo much more!
hemlock trees were dying in the Smokey Mts and Alghore blamed acid rain. It was later found out to be a beetle killing them.
But it’s still illegal to remove the dead trees.
Not to worry, this summer all the plants that burst into life with the rains will dry out and the resulting wildfires will take care of the dead trees and sooooooo much more!
Chinese pallets.
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Pine Bark beetles. Along with YUGE fires in JellyStone a few years back.
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