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1). It’s probably not true, but distorted and/or exaggerated.
2). Whichever, it will be attributed to climate change.
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.
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.
Lumber has value. Plus CO2 secrestration for yhe Libs.
The answer’s in the past...dutch elm disease...
from link:
As it swept through the British countryside, Dutch elm disease wiped out 25million trees.
But among the few survivors was a specimen discovered 33 years ago by horticulturist Paul King, who decided to take some cuttings.
And now, after years of painstaking research, he has developed a tree resistant to the infection.
How long before the “March on Science” and “Bill Nye, the FAKE science guy” blame this on Trump?
Counting!!!!!
Complete BS propaganda. Just drove into and through SoCal (from Vegas) last week. I’ve never seen it as green as it was this trip. Everything is growing and blooming like crazy.
Oasis? Where did he get that idea?
If they had 2 million fewer illegals, they would have water for their trees . . . and jobs for the Americans in California.
Without reading, let me guess: Global Warming.
Well, couldn’t read far enough down, but at least they referenced pests, droughts, and tourism first...usually, later in these stories, they tie them altogether with a bow of “global warming”.
Both of them?
Without reading any further, I’m guessing this is all my fault somehow. And I live 2400 miles away.