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
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
emerald ash borer ... spreads out from Chicago.
That’s its real name? From Chicago?
Is this recent data from Obama’s new book?
How long before the “March on Science” and “Bill Nye, the FAKE science guy” blame this on Trump?
Counting!!!!!
Shipping containers usually. They bring in lots of tainted/contaminated and other nasties in with them. Then they put them on trucks to all points..
bingo
The same thing happened to a lot of tall firs on our property a few years ago. After a couple dry years a number of them died. My neighbor who believes he knows everything told me they were dying of "tree blight". When I removed the bark from one of the dead trees I had to cut down... I found that it was infested with bark beetles. I had seen some of the beetles around in the months before but did not realize what they were.
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?
All of America will be a waterpark. WINNING.
“There’s now another introduced bug, the emerald ash borer...”
Anticipating the impending quarantine I logged off every last one from our property last summer.
The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is marching its way across New York and some areas have already been quarantined.
The log buyer said that all the logs are going directly to CHINA! If I’d have known that beforehand I would have cut them up for firewood and sold locally.
If they had 2 million fewer illegals, they would have water for their trees . . . and jobs for the Americans in California.
Michigan's already been hit. It was bound to happen sooner or later since a great many communities planted Ash trees exclusively due to their attractiveness.
When the epidemic was in full swing here in S.E. Michigan, most of the trees in the boulevards along my route to work were ash as were giant ones in the yards of homes. They were all dead........
Damned snowflakes. I’m absolutely sick and tired of hearing about them. Why aren’t they called exactly what they are: sissies. Now they feel guilty because they didn’t hang themselves because of some other guilty feeling. Argh-h!
News Flash for snowflakes: quit feeling guilty and just go hang yourself. Save this nation from your stupid, inadequate, fear-filled, idiotic, self important, useless lives. Be gone!
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”.
If government had allowed the use of DDT, we would still have Elm trees.
Both of them?
Without reading any further, I’m guessing this is all my fault somehow. And I live 2400 miles away.
James F. Cooper bemoaned that even back in 1823 in The Pioneers which is set in the 1780s!
Spray some stuff on the trees. Problem solved.
Was that so hard?
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