An article from Yale Climate Connections this week shows that real Christmas trees grown in North Carolina and other places are being subjected to increased risks from insect and fungal diseases, drought and extremes in weather. These risks are increasing due to changes in climate over time.
Foresters work on a longer timeline than crop or livestock farmers and need to plan far ahead for changes in temperature and precipitation that could affect the growth of their crop, trees. The article says “In a business that plans its harvests decades in advance, foresters have already started to adapt to climate changes that others have not even begun to notice – such as shifts in temperature, precipitation, and the onset of spring.”
