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Posted: 04 Jun 2016

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Smith Station Rd pine beetles (#0615)

Smith Station Rd pine beetles (#0615)
Getting to Hetch Hetchy from Coulterville required following backroads through pine forests. Far too much of the pine forests looked like this with quite a few dead trees, which I had assumed had died from fire damage. I later, though, realized this was the extent of the pine beetle infestation that had been occurring due to the drought.
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 slgwv
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And which makes the fires worse--
8 years ago.
 Clint
Clint
I saw a lot of beetle trees when I drove between Lassen and Truckee in 2014. I can only assume it's gotten worse. I dread to see what the forests I've known will look like in 20 years.
8 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Clint
Possibly what they looked like 100 years ago before fire suppression left them too dense and too much demand on the complex water system?
8 years ago.
Clint has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
Perhaps, but the various insect infestations are being driven in part by climate change and shifting ecosystems. In some places, say, an evergreen forest wiped out by a pine beetle might never recover because the local environment has been altered, and the particular conditions that once supported the forest have changed. Maybe the climate zone has moved north or higher in elevation. Maybe the region has grown more arid, or alternatively more humid. Maybe changing precipitation patterns have increased erosion. There are lots of possibilities, but I think one of the least likely is that any forest a hundred years from now will look much like it did a hundred years ago.
8 years ago.

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