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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
In Colorado we're having lots of tree problems. Basically it's a lot of things. For one, places where trees were clear cut were latter sown with too many seeds. The trees grew to close together and compete too much for water and nutrients as a result. This, as well as the growing drought that the local paper is saying has become the worst since 800 BC has lead to a masive pine beetle infestation that has killed entire forests. According to the local paper, the "worse case scenario" of draught just keeps getting worse. If the trees were healthier they would be more "immune" to the pine beetles, but in their current dehydrated, weakened state they are easy game for them. And as a result of so many dead and dry forests we now have more and more forest fires every year.
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The pine beetle infestation has to do with global warming.
The forests used to be colder, and they used to be colder for longer.
They don't get cold enough and for long enough, so the millions of larvae laid by Mom survive now, to eat the cambium out of the pines.
The keyboard player for the Rolling Stones did a show where they were harvesting the pine-kill, to widen fire breaks, and turning the deadwood into pellets for pellet stoves, which is technically a net-carbon technology.