Tag: tree mortality
The Far-Reaching Effects of Drought
The drought isn’t a problem … at least for human use. The long-range effects for the land are a different beast, with increasing tree die-offs, shrinking snowpack, and ever-graver wildfire threats.
A Race Against Wildfire
Tahoe’s living forest is shrinking and the threat of catastrophic fire looms large, but here in the Central Sierra and Tahoe Basin there wages a valiant battle to lessen the risk of wildfire.