Despite a good start to the rainy season, as many as 58-million large California trees are still facing severe danger because of the four-year drought. A study released by the Carnegie Institution for Science says the forests are, quote, “in tremendous perill, a situation that may cause long-term changes in ecosystems that could impact animal habitats and biodiversity”. The executive director of the Nevada County Resource Conservation District, Jan Blake, says there have been major losses of what’s called “canopy water”…
A U-S Forest Service survey last spring showed an estimated 12-million trees had died already. And with more dead trees, there is even more fuel for wildfires. And Blake says that has also created erosion runoff concerns this winter…
Governor Brown declared a state of emergency in October regarding California’s trees, while also calling on state and local agencies to ramp up removal efforts. But Blake says that’s an extremely expensive process and there is a chronic lack of funding.
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