Study Forests Dying | Global warming threatens forests, study says

January 22, 2009 by frankls
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This map's green dots mark some of the forested areas in the U.S. where scientists surveyed tree loss.Global warming threatens forests, study says
Forests in the Pacific Northwest are dying twice as fast as they were 17 years ago, and scientists blame warming temperatures for the trend, according to a new study.

The study, to be released Friday in the journal Science, is the first large-scale analysis of environmental changes as contributing factors in the mortality of coniferous forests.
The data for this research was gathered by generations of scientists over a 50-year period at multiple sites in Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and southwestern British Columbia. Seventy-six forest plots, all more than 200 years old, were monitored by scientists doing some of the most rudimentary research — counting trees.

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As I was driving around the Adirondack region, NY this summer, I noticed the alarming number of dead trees on the mountains, on the road side and along the river banks. I know that trees go through cycles of death and birth just like any organism, but I don't remember the number being this great in the past 15-16 years. I also saw similar conditions in the central part of NY(Ulster county)

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