Environmental Destruction: The Trees are Dying

 Backpackers should be concerned. Tree mortality in the Western United States, including the Sierra Nevadas, is accelerating at an alarming rate. Green forests are turning brown. Read the following, and weep. Then act.

Latest:

Climate change causing demise of lodgepole pine in western North America 

Oregon State University

Public release date: 28-Feb-2011

Research ties tree mortality trends to climate warming, nau, 1-22-09

New study links western tree mortality to warming temperatures, water stress,eureka alert, 1-22-09

Tree death rate in Pacific Northwest doubled in 17 years, u wash, 1-22-09

Warmer climate causing huge increase in tree mortality across the West, ore state, 1-22-09

Tree deaths have doubled across the western US, usgs, 1-22-09

Global warming killing sierra trees, usgs, 8/8/2007

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