Sentences with phrase «dying trees»

We went for a drive in the country and saw dead and dying trees everywhere.

He ordered state agencies to remove dead or dying trees from high - hazard areas and proposed expanding the number of days when tree waste can be burned.

Cally Carswell, a contributing editor at High Country News, won NASW's Science in Society Award for science reporting for a local or regional market in 2014 for this tale of dying trees in New Mexico — and what they tell us about the future impact of climate change.

A single specimen of this fungus spanning 8.8 kilometres2 was found in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon, betrayed by an area of dying trees.

With more than 32 million Christmas trees sold in America each year, there is some concern that dying trees release greenhouse gases when they decompose.

Older trees grow more slowly, sequestering less, and CO2 is emitted by dying trees and detritus, thereby creating more of a CO2 balance than a CO2 sponge.

Asner's assessments, combined with those from the state and federal agencies, contributed to Gov. Jerry Brown's October declaration of a state of emergency over dying trees.

Bruce Cockburn sings, Two thousand years and half a world away, dying trees still will grow greener when you pray.»

Because the ban has an exemption for public safety, State Forests switched to cutting dead and dying trees near roads and trails, where it says they could fall and cause accidents.

«These dead and dying trees continue to elevate the risk of wildfire, complicate our efforts to respond safely and effectively to fires when they do occur, and pose a host of threats to life and property across California,» said Vilsack.

You should cut down dead or dying trees close to your house and prune branches that are near your house.

Whole ecosystems are collapsing all over the globe and our rapidly dying trees are the most visible harbinger of what is unfolding.

But drought in the Amazon has already taken its toll and threatens to turn what ought to be a «sink» for carbon into a source, as dying trees and parching ground release carbon buried for centuries.

Lack of rainfall coupled with millions of dead and dying trees also exacerbate the wildfire risk throughout the region.

So if you failed to make reasonable inspection of your property, and a diseased or dying tree tips onto your neighbor's land, you're likely to be held liable.

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

Living trees soak up greenhouse gas and store it for a long time in their woody tissues, but dying trees release it — a carbon sink becomes a carbon source.

Natalie Flores, 27, passed by the space a few doors down from Washington Boulevard — then a trash - strewn mess of dry grass and a handful of dying trees — during a meditative barefoot morning walk in February.

These wasps are actually on our side: a bug army deployed in a desperate attempt to save our dying trees.

«In terms of replacing sick or dying trees, none of that went on when coffee prices were depressed.»

But It was real, more real than the shabby appearances that are so easy to mistake for reality, as real as new green leaves on a dying tree.

The greatest drought in the nation's history continued last week to blight the lives of people throughout a vast region in the central and southwestern part of the U.S., bringing withered crops, emaciated cattle, dead or dying trees, waterless streams and the decimation of wildlife.

Orland Park leaders are looking to speed up removal and replacement of ash trees because they worry dead and dying trees could create liability issues.

Orland Park leaders are still looking to speed up removal and replacement of the town's thousands of disease - stricken and at - risk ash trees and worry the dead and dying trees could create liability issues for the village.

They prefer stressed or dying trees, which have more ethanol — an alcohol that's produced naturally by the plant — flowing through their tissues.

As a result, in October 2015 California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency on the unprecedented tree die - off and formed a Tree Mortality Task Force to help mobilize additional resources for the safe removal of dead and dying trees.

Why do I make fake snowdrifts around a dying tree in my sunny California living room and -LSB-...]

In 2008 he began a series of paintings inspired by the dying trees, fueled equally by concern for and appreciation of their silent demise.

Robert Gober's untitled cartoon (1988 — 2008) of a winsome frock hanging on a dying tree covers similar psychic and thematic terrain.

The U.S. Forest Service attributes the majority of California's dying trees to the intensifying drought, noting that too many consecutive years of dry conditions weakens a trees defenses against diseases, fungi, and insects such as the pine beetle.

It's too soon to know what caused multiple conflagrations spreading across Northern California's wine country, but elsewhere in the state dead and dying trees have been the subject of much concern.

Predictions like this foreshadow a series of cascading effects that reach far beyond dead and dying trees.

Local projects will focus on removing dead and dying trees to reduce the wildfire threat around homes within Fresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Tulare and Tuolumne counties, said Daniel Berlant, an agency spokesperson.

Along with a flurry of activity, Brown's dead - trees emergency declaration triggered alarm among some environmentalists, who questioned its exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act to boost efforts to remove dead or dying trees.

«It will be important to bring their cutting - edge data and expertise to bear as the state seeks to address the effects of this epidemic of dying trees and aid in the recovery of our forests,» says Ashley Conrad - Saydah, deputy secretary for climate policy with the California Environmental Protection Agency.

Can't you just imagine some of the students so upset over these dying trees that they stop hurling toilet paper for a moment to wipe the tears with the dead trees, I mean, toilet paper?

However, if you can prove your neighbor was negligent in caring for the dead or dying tree, it could easily become their insurance company's problem.

An unsuspecting buyer may be on the hook for tree removal or be faced with a dying tree or its branches snapping and doing some damage to his home or surrounding property.