Sentences with phrase «dead trees across»

Higher temperatures and drought have weakened trees and increased their susceptibility to the bark beetle, resulting in tens of millions of dead trees across California that have further fueled wildfires.

In 2016 alone, 62 million trees have died, representing more than a 100 percent increase in dead trees across the state from 2015.

State officials on Monday reported a record 129 million dead trees across 8.9 million acres due to drought and bark beetles, posing the biggest wildfire hazard to the Sierra Nevada region in the northern part of the state.

Not exact matches

«If we go across the forest, you can see dead trees all over the place,» Skirko says.

I also like the way you can turn pages by swiping across the page — it's a much more natural gesture, especially for a device that's trying to emulate a dead - tree book.

Just last week it was announced that he and the Rebuild Foundation are transforming a bookstore into a bar, creating a lumber mill for Chicago's dead ash trees, and starting a workforce training program for un - and underemployed people across the South Side.

California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in October based on dead and dying trees in forests across the state.

The Forest Service last estimated some 66 million dead trees in the Sierra Nevada based on aerial surveys — it's not a huge number compared to the entire region, but the dead trees aren't spread out evenly across the mountain range.

Oak trees 18 inches in diameter looked dead as boards, and brush as brown as kindling stretched across a piece of farmland the size of a football field.