150 million dead trees in California with around a further 20 million a year dying

[Elderberry]

The Big Wobble by Gary Walton 9/25/2020

August and September account for five of the six biggest fires in nearly 90 years of recorded history for California: What we are not being told is the fact that there are more than 150 million dead trees in California with around a further 20 million a year dying

More dead than alive, the staggering truth about California's dead trees

But is there another reason for these fantastic wildfires which are becoming more and more explosive with every year passing? There is something happening in California which is never mentioned on our evening news, not over there as far as I am aware and definitely not over here.

There are in California more than 150 million dead trees with around a further 20 million a year dying, the numbers are quite frankly staggering, especially when you consider back in 2014 only 3.3 million dead trees were officially recorded. Full story

According to the US Forest Service’s aerial survey of federal, state, and private land in California, at the beginning of 2019, 18 million trees throughout the state died in 2018, bringing the state’s total number of dead trees to more than 147 million. The concern is these trees could be matchsticks for another conflagration, or that the decaying timber could maim a hiker, a ranger, or a firefighter. The total number of dead trees now in California is probably somewhere around 170 million, 19 months after the survey.

More: http://www.thebigwobble.org/2020/09/august-and-september-account-for-five_25.html

[Absalom]

The Big Wobble by Gary Walton 9/25/2020
August and September account for five of the six biggest fires in nearly 90 years of recorded history for California: What we are not being told is the fact that there are more than 150 million dead trees in California with around a further 20 million a year dying
More dead than alive, the staggering truth about California's dead trees
But is there another reason for these fantastic wildfires which are becoming more and more explosive with every year passing? There is something happening in California which is never mentioned on our evening news, not over there as far as I am aware and definitely not over here
According to the US Forest Service’s aerial survey of federal, state, and private land in California, at the beginning of 2019, 18 million trees throughout the state died in 2018, bringing the state’s total number of dead trees to more than 147 million. The concern is these trees could be matchsticks for another conflagration, or that the decaying timber could maim a hiker, a ranger, or a firefighter. The total number of dead trees now in California is probably somewhere around 170 million, 19 months after the survey.
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And the reason is?

[Elderberry]

The Big Wobble by Gary Walton 9/25/2020
August and September account for five of the six biggest fires in nearly 90 years of recorded history for California: What we are not being told is the fact that there are more than 150 million dead trees in California with around a further 20 million a year dying
More dead than alive, the staggering truth about California's dead trees
But is there another reason for these fantastic wildfires which are becoming more and more explosive with every year passing? There is something happening in California which is never mentioned on our evening news, not over there as far as I am aware and definitely not over here
According to the US Forest Service’s aerial survey of federal, state, and private land in California, at the beginning of 2019, 18 million trees throughout the state died in 2018, bringing the state’s total number of dead trees to more than 147 million. The concern is these trees could be matchsticks for another conflagration, or that the decaying timber could maim a hiker, a ranger, or a firefighter. The total number of dead trees now in California is probably somewhere around 170 million, 19 months after the survey.

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And the reason is?

Drought weakens the trees and then they are set upon by bark beetles. Of course they had to blame it on Climate Change.

What is killing so many trees? In California’s case, it is bark beetles. Trees defend themselves against these pests by producing a resin that traps and kills the critters as they try to burrow through the bark. The resin production is almost completely based on water availability, California is suffering a long time drought. Little water means little resin, which means little resistance against beetles, which are also appearing in larger numbers due to climate change. Warmer winters mean that more beetles survive the cooler season, leading to more abundant numbers in the spring.

[truth_seeker]

My family has live in North and South OC for a long time. (he covers from San Diego to Ventura)

The next time the natives burn their cribs, mo bidnes

[rangerrebew]

Bark beetles transformed millions of acres of trees in California into fuel for wildfires

10/10/2020 / By Divina Ramirez

Even before lightning storms opened California’s most destructive fire season to date, pests called bark beetles had been setting the stage for the fires, transforming millions of trees into heaps of dried timber.

Experts report that the beetles have infested millions of acres of trees, killing entire forests in the process. They stated that 90 percent of the dead trees that served as fuel for September’s Creek Fire in the Sierra Nevada mountains – the state’s single largest fire to date – can be attributed to beetle infestations.

“So many of the trees have died creating significant fuel for the fire to burn,” said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), in a video about the Creek Fire.

https://www.climate.news/2020-10-10-beetles-fueled-california-fires.html