Forestry
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Areas of the western US are looking for sources of additional water to help ease shortages caused by the continuing 4-year drought. Some scientists wondered if thinning the forests to reduce water use might improve water catches into reservoirs and increase water supply. However, as noted in this blog posting from the Southern Research Center…
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The National Interagency Fire Center has issued their May outlook for wildfire possibilities across the United States this week. The report shows that the Southeast has a lower than normal chance for wildfires this year due to the current wet conditions coupled with the presence of the El Nino, which is expected to last for…
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I’ve seen several interesting stories about changes in forests over time and how climate is impacted by those changes. Here are a few that I thought were particularly interesting. Nature posted a long news article back in 2014 that I just ran across about how deforestation of the tropical rainforests is changing the local climate…
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I’ve been attending the Southern Chapter of the International Society of Arborists meeting this week in Mobile. I was fortunate to listen to Dr. Kim Coder of the University of Georgia discuss the impacts of winds and lightning on trees. He told me about several fact sheets that the Warnell School of Forestry at UGA…