Climate change is hastening the demise of Pacific Northwest forests

Climate change is hastening the demise of Pacific Northwest forests

1 year, 1 month ago

Climate change is hastening the demise of Pacific Northwest forests

Associated Press

SHERWOOD, Ore. — Deep inside a forest in Oregon’s Willamette Valley stands a dead “Tree of Life.” Its foliage, normally soft and green, is tough and brown or missing altogether. They’re going to start bailing.” Three dead western red cedars, center, at Magness Memorial Tree Farm in Sherwood, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Christine Buhl, a forest health specialist for the Oregon Department of Forestry, uses an increment borer to core a western red cedar at Magness Memorial Tree Farm in Sherwood, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Christine Buhl, a forest health specialist for the Oregon Department of Forestry, holds a tree core from a dead western red cedar, showing healthier rings toward the right of the sample and more drought-affected rings to the left, at Magness Memorial Tree Farm in Sherwood, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Property manager James Bailey looks at a dead Douglas fir among several dead western red cedars at Magness Memorial Tree Farm in Sherwood, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023.

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Extreme heat represents a new threat to trees and plants in the Pacific Northwest

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California’s mountains are too warm for some trees to survive. Inside these ‘zombie forests’

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Weather patterns ‘could cause more gradual change of colour’ for autumn trees

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Weather patterns ‘could cause more gradual change of colour’ for autumn trees

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Seattle climate activists roost in old cedar tree to prevent it from being cut down for new housing

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Explained: Why is Japan axing thousands of trees when the world needs more green cover?

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Sacramento’s iconic tree canopy turns destructive in storms

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A record high number of dead trees are found as Oregon copes with an extreme drought

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A record high number of dead trees are found as Oregon copes with an extreme drought

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How the Northeast’s extreme drought could spoil this year’s fall colors

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Editorial: Climate change is killing California’s iconic trees

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Editorial: Climate change is killing California’s iconic trees

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Drought-stressed Oregon trees were scorched in heat wave

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3 years, 3 months ago

Climate change, logging collide -- and a forest shrinks

Associated Press

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Cedar Rapids tries to turn city of stumps into tree oasis

3 years, 7 months ago

Cedar Rapids tries to turn city of stumps into tree oasis

Associated Press

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