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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 ...
The California Sycamore, like the Valley Oak (largest oak in the world) sends a tap root down to the water table. It’s often as much as 100ft deep.
It’s how they take up water. Not from surface roots.
If the water table drops faster than they can sink the root, they die. And millions have during this drought. It’s a genuine tragedy.
All the guy had to say is that, because of the drought there is a bark-beetle infestation; and it has killed billions of board feet of trees. And, that will continue, even though the drought is now over!
its a desert isnt it..?
Last summer I noticed all the dead trees around town. Trees that were on city properties. A lot of them were dieing from drought. Our local paper even did a story on how many trees around town had died/were dieing.
Um, yeah, draught affects everything. Plants and animals can’t live without water, and plants are more susceptible to parasites etc.
But does the L.A. Times have trouble with timing? It has and will rain in SoCal every day for the last 3 days and maybe tomorrow, and this winter we had a very high precipitation count.
Does the LA Times have a problem with logic? Because all this article is, is scare click bait with not one word on what happens if the drought has ended, or what we can do to prevent further problems. Don’t get me wrong, if it scares people away, it’s a good thing. Threatening to bring properrty values down in SoCal, hey, not the worst idea in the world. But the timing seems rather dumb.
I mentioned that in my post.
Leni
“In a bad mood tonight hearing how mismanaged our natural and manmade resources are by the “Don’t blame us” bureaucrats”
You’ve no idea. One example, 4fri in AZ and New Mexico. That is the four forest restoration initiative.
Biggest effn scam ever committed by the USFS.
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For some reason the Chinese hybrid elm is resistant to the Dutch elm blight.
When one drives from Boston to NYC the most direct route involves I-84 into Connecticut and to the New York border (although you can do I-95 too).Recently when driving that route (I-84) there was a great big sign when you cross into Connecticut saying there's a state law which forbids bringing firewood (or wood products,can't recall which) into the state from elsewhere.I think the sign mentions some kind of insect...although I might have read that elsewhere.
The sign I saw was along these lines but contained more details.
Maybe we should be spending money solving THIS problem instead of wasting it on global warming stuff.
After all, nothing’s better for your CO2 levels than having actual trees.
The city of Yorba Linda is letting several hundred trees on parkways die. They wanted to raise taxes for watering the parkway trees and residents in the city voted no. So the city paid workers to come and rip all the sprinkler lines right out of the ground. Their intention is to let hundreds of beautiful, mature trees die by attrition.
The magnolias are going fastest. The liquid ambers are going to go next. As soon as one looks sickly or droopy, they come rip it out of the ground.
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