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The trees that make Southern California shady and green are dying. Fast
LATimes ^ | April 18, 2017 | Louis Sahagun

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 ...


TOPICS: Gardening
KEYWORDS: deforestation; horticulture; socal; sycamore; trees; urbanforest; willow
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To: piasa

emerald ash borer ... spreads out from Chicago.

That’s its real name? From Chicago?

Is this recent data from Obama’s new book?


41 posted on 05/07/2017 9:12:21 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

How long before the “March on Science” and “Bill Nye, the FAKE science guy” blame this on Trump?

Counting!!!!!


42 posted on 05/07/2017 9:30:49 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: digger48

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..


43 posted on 05/07/2017 9:39:29 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: T. P. Pole

bingo


44 posted on 05/07/2017 10:27:29 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (in)
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To: Hugin
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.

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.

45 posted on 05/07/2017 11:16:21 PM PDT by fireman15
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

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.


46 posted on 05/07/2017 11:19:49 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Oasis? Where did he get that idea?


47 posted on 05/07/2017 11:26:23 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: libh8er

All of America will be a waterpark. WINNING.


48 posted on 05/07/2017 11:32:18 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: crz; Lurker
In a bad mood tonight hearing how mismanaged our natural and manmade resources are by the “Don't blame us” bureaucrats. Well, whose idea was it to tax and regulate America's creative geniuses, its businessmen, to the logical conclusion that it was cheaper to use unregulated business in far flung hellholes around the world? Whose idea was it to go off the Gold Standard and simply print money whenever this taxing, regulating government ran low on money? Inflation, taxation and regulation brought the bugs in wood pallets from Asia. As Khrushchev said, they are selling us the rope with which to hang ourselves. The youngest American snowflakes even feel guilty for not hanging themselves for being ugly Americans. Can this end well?
49 posted on 05/08/2017 1:11:19 AM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education!)
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To: piasa

“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.


50 posted on 05/08/2017 3:24:42 AM PDT by panaxanax
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

If they had 2 million fewer illegals, they would have water for their trees . . . and jobs for the Americans in California.


51 posted on 05/08/2017 3:39:28 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: digger48
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.

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........

52 posted on 05/08/2017 3:51:34 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: The Westerner

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!


53 posted on 05/08/2017 4:01:06 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimud Buarch)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Without reading, let me guess: Global Warming.


54 posted on 05/08/2017 4:04:49 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

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”.


55 posted on 05/08/2017 4:07:45 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: piasa

If government had allowed the use of DDT, we would still have Elm trees.


56 posted on 05/08/2017 4:10:07 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Both of them?


57 posted on 05/08/2017 5:04:58 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Without reading any further, I’m guessing this is all my fault somehow. And I live 2400 miles away.


58 posted on 05/08/2017 5:10:23 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: piasa
It’s happened before - the Eastern US looks totally different than it did when settlers first arrived.

James F. Cooper bemoaned that even back in 1823 in The Pioneers which is set in the 1780s!

59 posted on 05/08/2017 6:10:24 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Spray some stuff on the trees. Problem solved.

Was that so hard?


60 posted on 05/08/2017 6:25:21 AM PDT by subterfuge (Build the damn wall...)
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