CAL FIRE Chief Ken Pimlott said in a news release that "the sheer number of dead trees is hard to imagine," and urged citizens to remove dead trees from their property.
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Dead trees speak through their future form — smoldering embers.
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A group of brown, dead trees in the Sierra National Forest.
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The fully upright dead trees have a spooky beauty to them.
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Dead trees near the crater of the Taal volcano, Jan. 14.
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There are now more than 149 million dead trees throughout the state.
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Coats zipped, they set off for the forest to clear dead trees.
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But more dead trees doesn't always lead to more or larger fires.
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But the dead trees, 40 million of them, intrude on the pastoral.
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You should also alert the city about any sickly or dead trees.
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The dead trees tend to be younger: two- to eight-years-old.
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"There's nothing in front of me but dead trees," Ms. Peterson said.
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But the problem is when those dead trees are concentrated in large patches.
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Such a devastatingly large number of dead trees come with equally dire consequences.
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The result is overgrown and dying forests with over 100 million dead trees.
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Instead, Finns focus on removing dead trees from the forest floor — where possible.
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Out West, the dead trees that line the mountainsides are hard to miss.
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The dead trees also provide food and nesting sites for various insects and plants.
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Homeowners are encouraged to have dead trees removed, but it can be very costly.
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One of many dead trees with the visible scars of a bark beetle outbreak.
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The icons depict melting sea ice, starving polar bears, dead trees, and flooded people.
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Ms. Westbrook noted that the city hasn't addressed several dead trees on her block.
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But many environmental groups argue that aggressive harvesting of dead trees goes too far.
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Their first order of business was to clear the dead trees in the backyard.
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They say State Forests is cutting the dead trees because it needs the money.
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The USDA did a report in December and said 129 million dead trees in California.
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However, the distribution of the dead trees was not evenly spread among the various zones.
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The state's forests have more than 100 million dead trees, providing more fuel for wildfires.
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There are plenty of reasons to worry about dead trees, but the most pressing is wildfire.
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Goetz brought up one other pretty serious problem with this idea: removing dead trees is disruptive.
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Today as he glides over the wetlands around Houma, he sees dead trees submerged in saltwater.
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California has more than 943 million dead trees due to drought and infestation from bark beetles.
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Fire personnel help residents create "defensible space" around their homes by removing brush and dead trees.
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The area is so affected by dead trees; you smell fires and hear chainsaws all day long.
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While dead trees don't necessarily lead to increased fire risk, they pose a hazard to wildland firefighters.
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California has a problem to the tune of 129 million dead trees, spread across 8.9 million acres.
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California requires investor-owned utilities to buy biomass power from dead trees in high-hazard forested zones.
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Imagine a vast swampland filled with smoke, dead trees, and putrid water—no living creature, no hope.
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Dead trees pose a major hazard as they allow wildfires to spread rapidly in hot, dry conditions.
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"Look, they didn't touch the dead trees," Mr. Kalmykov said, pointing to the still standing, blackened pines.
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Dead trees also add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, releasing them when they are burned or decompose.
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An art project invites participants to dress up and parade as snags, which are standing dead trees.
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Let dead trees stand as nesting sites for cavity-nesting birds and a food source for insects.
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" Around the property, other workers cut down overgrown bamboo and "a tangle of vines and dead trees.
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A decade ago the spread of mountain pine beetles left 18m hectares of dead trees in the province.
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Over time, undergrowth, saplings and dead trees accumulate, creating conditions in which a fire can spread very rapidly.
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From The Christian Science Monitor:Many say that getting the dead trees out of the forests is the answer.
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California alone has an estimated 66 million dead trees speckling its landscapes and waiting to become wildfire fuel.
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Several studies have shown that dead trees have not increased fire size or frequency in some western forests.
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While we're using the wood to grow mushrooms, we could use the dead trees' leaves, too, he said.
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That means clearing out dead trees and vegetation from under power lines and in dense, old-growth forests.
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I mean, aside from locking the entire world in a hot room with a bunch of dead trees?
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The knowledge economy values the genetic information sequestered in the forest more highly than land or dead trees.
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California officials are worried about the more than 102 million dead trees that litter the Sierra Nevada range.
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Government agencies are leaving millions of dead trees in the forest, ready to burn at the first spark.
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Record wildfires killed dozens and leveled entire towns, fueled by extreme heat, years of drought, and dead trees.
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I often wonder at bookstores, with their aisles and aisles of dead trees compressed into 200 or so pages.
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There are now approximately 149 million dead trees in California that could serve as fuel for a major blaze.
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Yes, following in the footsteps of chains like Borders, Amazon apparently thinks that the future is in dead trees.
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The U.S. Forest Service estimates that California has 129 million dead trees, most in the central and southern Sierras.
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In between the floor and the crown, there are years' worth of logs, overgrown shrubs, and standing dead trees.
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Environmental groups should be willing to explore policies like aggressive reduction in fuel load, cutting of dead trees, etc.
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With a few clicks and a bit of waiting, your mailbox should be home to far fewer dead trees.
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There's also an estimated 129 million dead trees in California, most of it in the central and southern Sierras.
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Climate change-induced drought, heat and 129 million dead trees have heightened wildfire risks, PG&E said on its website.
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When a forest has thousands of dead trees just chillin, without having fallen over yet, that forest becomes a tinderbox.
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Mitigating those effects would require a massive intervention to clear dead trees and plant new ones, which is currently unthinkable.
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A Forest Service survey counted almost 80,000 dead trees there last year, mostly pine, among the chaparral and scrub oak.
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Years of drought conditions in the state have left dry brush and dead trees that have helped fuel the fires.
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If you look closely at the landscape, you will see thousands of acres of dead trees caused by insect infestations.
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A typical bristlecone habitat features trees that are more or less evenly spaced, with the hulks of dead trees intervening.
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Now, one way to combat the immediate fire risk would be to go in and remove many of those dead trees.
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He continued to do so with another 20 dead trees, and then planted 75 flowers in the roots of each one.
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A statement says Hughes was part of a crew removing brush and other fuel in an area with many dead trees.
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How dry conditions, dead trees and a lengthy drought set the stage for one of the worst fire seasons on record.
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On cue, a pair of birds appeared, swooping through the air and alighting on dead trees to attack them like jackhammers.
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The risk of fire remains high statewide with more than 24 million dead trees in California forests following the long drought.
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Number of the day 66 million The number of dead trees in California, providing more tinder for an already volatile wildfire season.
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A view of dead trees affected by gold mine waste, known as tailings on February 21960, 2017 in Timika, Papua Province, Indonesia.
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They're responsible for about 20 percent of the 6.3 billion standing dead trees across the West, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
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But that means the vast majority of the dead trees in California will stay in place and continue to pose fire risks.
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While America's forests are overgrown—thus providing more fuel for flames to quickly spread—dead trees and underbrush are considered greater problems.
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But Amazon is full of surprises and — maybe, just maybe — selling books on dead trees inside a mall is the latest one.
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A revitalization plan calls in part for clearing out the dead trees and introducing more native species (the eucalyptus are from Australia).
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At the moment, California has more than 100 million dead trees, a mass die-off driven by years of drought and insect infestations.
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The company cited the "new normal" of heightened year-round wildfire hazards created by years of prolonged drought and millions of dead trees.
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In California, state officials convened a tree mortality task force in 2015 to try to get a handle on all the dead trees.
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Years of drought, extreme heat and 129 million dead trees have created a 'new normal' for our state that requires comprehensive new solutions.
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Meanwhile, five years of drought, heat and bark beetles have left roughly 66 million dead trees in the Sierra Nevada, ready to ignite.
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The battle against the borer has been costly for the state and for communities that must deal with limbs falling from dead trees.
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Cutting down anything close to 129 million dead trees would be horrendously expensive, and there aren't enough sawmills in California to process them.
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This has pitted preservationists against foresters who worry that failing to clear the dead trees will cause insect infestations to spread more rapidly.
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It is no longer debatable that proactive management — prescribed burns, salvaging of dead trees, responsible timber harvesting, among other prescriptions — reduce wildfire severity.
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Without funding to go in and clear them, those dead trees act as kindling waiting to go up in flames at the first spark.
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Years of drought and bark beetle destruction has left an estimated 443 million dead trees in California and the threat of new devastating wildfires.
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"As we flew up and down the Big Bend, we could see this band of dead trees, always fringing a salt marsh," Putz says.
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They only have to cut down trees under active attack in those areas and can leave other dead trees standing for the next three years.
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A Tree Mortality Task Force crew of PG&E workers cut down dead trees in a residential area to protect power lines and other infrastructure.
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"How many people will come to see dead trees?" huffs Jerzy Sirak, the mayor of Hajnowka, a town on the western edge of the forest.
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Why it matters: Fires are a natural part of Earth's ecosystem — they clear dead trees from forests and keep plant growth in check in grasslands.
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The real problem, according to Zinke, is the 120 million dead trees sitting in California's forests—an issue his agency is supposed to help manage.
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Dead trees can feed other life forms, like rats and insectsRats, much like mushrooms, can digest cellulose, the sugar that makes up 50% of wood.
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As a result, forestry officials have asked for more funding to thwart wildfire risks through prescribed burning and the removal of millions of dead trees.
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With more than 100 million dead trees in California waiting to ignite in wildfire, City Hall's dead redwood was a reminder that danger is close.
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In California, intense, multi-year drought has led to large expanses of dead trees, and these are more prone to burning compared to healthy ones.
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Snags, or standing dead trees, in a part of the Stanislaus National Forest in California that was severely burned in the Rim Fire of 2013.
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Much of the landscape near the golf course was also rendered a barren moonscape of blackened terrain with dead trees and boulders deposited by the flows.
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Homeowners Franky and Sam Johnson live in Meadow Lakes, California, and have been navigating the fallout from the many dead trees on and around their property.
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Bunches of dead trees illuminated only from the bottom cast a horrifying shadow on the hallway's ceiling, leading to a lonely Christmas tree at the end.
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Perhaps. The endless pace of linkrot has left books about the internet in a curious limbo—they're dead trees about the dead-tree killer, after all.
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Last week, the Forest Service said there were 40 million of them — that is, 40 million dead trees in this state, almost one for every resident.
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The Resilient Federal Forests Act also allows federal land managers to quickly remove dead trees after wildfires, creating new revenue to replant and rehabilitate burned forests.
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Scientists have also found that dead trees don't necessarily lead to larger burned areas, so it's not clear that cutting them down is a useful tactic.
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Realistically, this isn't a big deal and copies will surely be back in stock soon for those of us who prefer our speculative fiction on dead trees.
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The devastation and danger are greatest in the central and southern Sierra Nevada, where the estimated number of dead trees since 2010 is a staggering 66 million.
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Dead trees open gaps in the canopy, allowing more light and wind to reach the forest floor, which becomes hotter, drier and more prone to burn again.
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Climate scientists do acknowledge that there is room for improvement when it comes to burning the branches and dead trees on the ground that can fuel fires.
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Six years of drought, a pine beetle infestation and generations of forest mismanagement means there are 129 million dead trees in California, most of them on federal land.
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Walsh suggests that because mushrooms, rats, and some insects can thrive without sunlight, humans could start farming them with the remains of dead trees after an apocalyptic event.
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Do everything necessary to eliminate risks to humans, these experts argue, but otherwise leave dead trees alone to decompose or go up in flames and create new habitats.
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Fire experts see continued danger of major wildfires throughout the summer due to heat, dry conditions and millions of dead trees that provide added fuel for large blazes.
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Most of the dead trees are in the central and southern Sierra Nevada region of California, and insect attacks and drought are to blame for the high numbers.
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Day-to-day, you go into the community and do projects such as clearing brush, cutting down dead trees, planting new trees, and lots and lots of weeding.
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Fire officials also see an added risk of lightening-sparked fires, particularly in forest areas where there's fuel from dead trees and dry leaves, cones and broken twigs.
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In any event, her husband will inevitably win, since Bartram takes the form of dead trees and dreams, and her husband takes the form of warm pragmatic flesh.
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Now, his furniture-making company creates tables, chairs, walls, cabinets, coasters and anything else a customer wants from dead trees, demolished water towers and razed 19th-century tenements.
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We are a state of dead trees and drought, forests full of upright tinder where bark beetles chew through perished crimson-colored forests that should be all evergreen boughs.
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Dead needles on coniferous trees killed by drought can act like fine fuels, spreading fire rapidly through the crowns of the dead trees and igniting heavy timber below them.
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From that height, I can see the islands of dead trees that have been studied for so many years by Putz and the scientists who followed in his footsteps.
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Adding to the wildfire risk are an estimated 21 million dead trees in the state due to years of drought and beetle infestation, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
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The Archangel Ancient Tree Archive reportedly believed it was impossible to clone dead trees—to be clear, trees can be cloned, but it's typically done using living tree stems.
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Because California wildfires have been devastating in recent years, Oakland Fire Fighters scour neighborhoods looking for fuel, such as dead trees and brush, to help mitigate a potential disaster.
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There are more than 100 million dead trees in California forests following the drought, and when added with the dry brush there's a risk of major fires this season.
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After evacuating thousands of tourists and residents near Yosemite earlier this week, officials on Friday were closely monitoring the flames as they crept toward groves of dry, dead trees.
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Adding to the wildfire risk are an estimated 129 million dead trees in California forests due to years of drought and beetle infestation, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
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That's led to a staggering 129 million dead trees throughout the state, leaving dry kindling scattered throughout forests and creating severe fire conditions that blanket huge swaths of the state.
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The south and central Sierra Nevada regions, where most of the dead trees are located, are at particular risk of severe wildfires: So how did we get to this point?
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Photographer Mette Lampcov spent three days in November 2500 in California documenting the Sierra National Forest's dead trees, as well as the homeowners forced to reckon with their dying surroundings.
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Newsom, a Democrat, already has proposed the state spend more for wildfire prevention and even waived environmental rules to clear dead trees and remove other vegetation in fire-prone areas.
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Whether it's actually going to be on dead trees or on electronics or both, I don't really care as long as we have ways of expressing these long-form ideas.
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These recent fires have barely made a dent in the glut of dead trees, CalFire says, and peak fire season in Southern California is still to come later this year.
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But 2018 seems to have ushered in a darker Christmas spirit, one that evokes visions of dead trees and dragons, where hungry rodents are hell-bent on destroying good cheer.
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LOS ANGELES – California is preparing to mobilize National Guard troops to reduce the threat of wildfires by clearing hazardous dead trees, vegetation and creating fuel breaks, according to Cal Fire.
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Not to be outdone, his interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, complained that "environmental terrorist groups" were, in part, responsible, through legal efforts that had blocked logging of live and dead trees.
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One of the things that he wants looked at is the fire hazard caused by an abundance of fuel in California forests, such as an estimated 53 million dead trees.
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The landscape of the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, as this area of the White Mountains is called, is littered with fragments of dead trees—trunks, limbs, roots, and smaller chunks.
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This week a group of scientists warned in the journal BioScience that the dead trees could produce wildfires on a scale and of an intensity that California has never seen.
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"We will rebuild the valuable habitats in the Bialowieza Forest by removing dead trees as much as is necessary, and restoring the oaks and ashes," Mr. Szyszko declared in 2016.
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"Years of drought, extreme heat and 129 million dead trees have created a 'new normal' for our state, and we must continue to adapt to meet these challenges," PG&E said.
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Ultimately, no amount of grid hardening or fire safety can compensate for the fact that California's forests are now tightly packed with dry dead trees, the result of decades of mismanagement.
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And these dead trees pose a huge wildfire risk: They were one reason the deadly Camp Fire, which torched the town of Paradise, California, in November, got so big so quickly.
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And then there are the dead trees: scorched mountain tops dotted with blackened stumps, eucalyptus trees hacked at their base, smoking piles of olive wood slowing turning into lumps of charcoal.
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But Perdue said it could take years for authorities to catch up on forest management, such as thinning out the fuel of dead trees and dry underbrush, and improving emergency roads.
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The House version of the bill would allow land managers to remove dead trees and dense brush from federal land that insect infestations and ongoing drought conditions have turned into matchsticks.
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Salvage logging of dead or dying trees should focus near roads where standing dead trees pose a safety hazard and be avoided altogether in areas needed to preserve natural ecosystem processes.
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It's easy to see why, when there are 129 million dead trees in California alone -- a side effect of rising temperatures that cause western forests to dry out, the meteorological organization said.
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It doesn't look much like victory — the scorched rocks, bone-dry corpses of long-dead trees and the hot white sand stretching into the distance speak more of a scene of desolation.
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The official count of dead trees, taken by United States Forest Service and California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials during flights over the Sierra Nevada, is almost certain to grow.
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The gist of the story, reported by Moises Velasquez-Manoff and photographed by Gabriella Demczuk, is that rising seas are creating huge stands of dead trees, sometimes surprisingly far from the sea.
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Approximately $800 million has been added for projects focused on the prevention of forest fires, including more fire prevention inspections and projects, removal of dead trees and other fuel reduction activities and projects.
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But the dead trees themselves do not catch fire easily, because they are too big, said Chad T. Hanson, the principal ecologist at the John Muir Project of the nonprofit Earth Island Institute.
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It was bright, with a wide view of the landscape—including a cluster of dead trees at the top—and, shot at a slight angle, gave a relatively clear indication of the space.
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Instead of carrying around folders of dead trees and bulky books, we'll use miraculous tablets instead that can store a limitless amount of information and knowledge in a single, easy-to-carry form factor.
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In an interview for the podcast Conquering Columbus, Wilkins noted that the firm wanted to get the Associated Press, which had previously only been available to the public through dead trees, onto its service.
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The dance is set against a dystopian background of dead trees and vines that disappeared years ago when the dam was first flooded, but are now visible once again on the dry dam floor.
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Salvage logging of dead or dying trees is appropriate near roads where standing dead trees pose a safety hazard but should generally be avoided in areas where maintaining natural ecosystem processes is a priority.
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At a time when most of the world's publishers have accepted as gospel that the future is digital, such a bet on dead trees has more than a few industry analysts scratching their heads.
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She also began hauling home fallen or dead trees and, later, roadkill; when she stumbled upon the bones and carcasses of various animals in a pit, she turned them into a sculpture, "Rift" (22016).
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Believe me when I say that I like printing digital artefacts on dead trees as much as the next guy, but this is one PDF that was never meant to make it to meatspace.
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Enstice cited a research paper published this year that laid out a chilling tableau: California has more than a 120 million dead trees strewn around its mountain ranges, with the southern Sierra hardest hit.
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We all began walking the tourist path, and the slope rising to our left presented a typical bristlecone habitat: trees more or less evenly spaced, with the bright-tan hulks of dead trees intervening.
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A few brave Gizmodo staffers used the tool to look up their apartments using the extension and luckily no one found anything too disturbing: horns, potholes, homeless assistance, dead trees, and the occasional rat rager.
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So while we didn't see these super blooms, we did see plants on the ground — like grass, brush, and millions of dead trees — get turned into ideal fire fuel that spread embers at explosive rates.
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The misty rain unstiffens the wood of dead trees, making places for nesting woodpeckers to excavate next spring, making a home for the insects that will feed the woodpeckers and so many other living things.
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The dead trees lower the moisture content of the forest, and when their leaves and needles fall to the ground, that adds to the surface fuel that usually drives wildfires in places like the Sierra Nevada.
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On Friday, Andy Vesey, PG&E's chief executive for utility operations, said that drought, dead trees, high winds and low humidity had combined for a disaster that could be even more severe than some recent fires.
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But maybe it looks so weird because hungry freaks like me will be entranced by it, want to poke it, and will then spread its spores so the fungus can pop up on more dead trees.
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Outbreaks of pests weaken and kill trees Disastrous drought conditions have converted forests into tinderboxes, leaving behind an apocalyptic landscape of dead trees -- in the millions -- and inviting bark-eating pests such as the Mountain Pine Beetle.
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"Their budget has to be supplemented every year for the funds to fight fires, and they usually don't have money to do preventative maintenance tasks like clear out underbrush and get rid of dead trees," Balmes said.
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Then you can wait to check out results right before you go to bed or maybe even forget about it for the night and check the front page of your local dead trees newspaper in the morning.
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On view in the National Gallery of Art's exhibition East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography is an 1888 photograph by Seneca Ray Stoddard capturing a field of dead trees, drowned by an industrial dam.
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For instance, in one painting of World War I, during which he served in the British army as both an officer and an official war artist, dead trees contort above a trench populated with somber, angular soldiers.
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Its size overtook the deadly Carr Fire, about 100 miles (160 km) to the northeast, which is among 17 major blazes burning in tinder-dry forests and woodland peppered with dead trees from the state's 2011-2017 drought.
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State officials on Monday reported a record 129 million dead trees across 8.9 million acres due to drought and bark beetles, posing the biggest wildfire hazard to the Sierra Nevada region in the northern part of the state.
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Paragraph and character style sheets, spell checking, cross-references, tables, inline images, and revision marking (among others) are all just as useful and important in an online-only world as in one where we print on dead trees.
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The lucrative, and scientifically controversial, practice of logging trees just after a fire might well be banned across large areas, since those dead trees turn out to be important habitat for many types of creatures, including the woodpeckers.
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Photo by Holly Andres, courtesy of Esperanza Spalding On the cover of Emily's D+Evolution, the title character, Emily, looks aloof as she stands in all white by a multicolored rocky hill, backed by dead trees and cloudy skies.
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According to the US Forest Service's latest aerial survey of federal, state, and private land in California, 2105 million trees throughout the state died in 2200, bringing the state's total number of dead trees to more than 147 million.
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Unlike artists including Robert Smithson and Mark Dion, who brought live or dead trees into white-cube gallery spaces, Mr. Oliveira has constructed a tree from scratch, using plywood and other materials, as well as wood brought from Brazil.
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CHICAGO — Enter the new American Writers Museum, which opens here on May 16, and you find yourself standing under a canopy of dead trees, in the form of a rippling, color-coordinated cloud of books bolted to the ceiling.
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According to Cal Fire, more than 25 million acres and 2000 percent of California's population are considered under "very high or extreme fire threat," magnified by climate change, dead trees, and the ever-expanding sprawl of cities into wildland areas.
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Faced with a new fire threat this week — one that could spread fast given all the dead trees in sight — Ben Ray said he fears it's not just trees that could perish, but potentially the houses he built, including his own.
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Dead trees and drought have an added impact on water supply—national forests provide roughly half of the state's $9.5 billion water supply by filtering precipitation, which provides Californians with clean water and supports the agricultural economy of the state.
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For example, in August 2014, a copper mine in British Columbia released a toxic slurry of 10 billion liters of wastewater and 5 billion liters of solid tailings, creating a polluted dystopia of dead trees and a contaminated salmon spawning area.
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Another $180 million will go toward reducing pollution from working farms and managing forests to remove old and dead trees to make room for young trees that absorb more nutrients from rain and snow melt that run into the reservoirs.
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Although there remains a split among experts regarding the necessity and benefit of prescribed burns, the task force hopes its careful burning of dry brush and dead trees will aid forests in their regeneration and a return to a resilient and balanced ecosystem.
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Those records, first reported and posted online by The Journal News, based in White Plains, revealed that the town received a complaint in early October about excavation work at the Clintons' new home that seemed related to the removal of dead trees.
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It has, after all, been in existence since long before the advent of human shelters, to say nothing of human beings, and it is perfectly capable of spending the season huddled beneath peeling bark or in the hollow insides of dead trees.
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While forest density and the concentration of dead trees generally appear to have a minimal impact on the intensity of wildfires, data show that climate-change-driven drought and abnormal weather is increasingly influencing fire behavior and the length of the fire season.
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Paradise had not seen significant rain for 211 days, and the town, on a ridge in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, was surrounded by a potential bonfire of dry or dead trees following a five-year drought that ended in 2017.
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From the Bransfield Strait of Antarctica where Cape petrels foraged on a towering iceberg, to the Namib Desert of Namibia where an oryx stood among dead trees in a dust storm, the places they visited are some of the planet's most extreme habitats.
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They possess the same quality of open-ended aggregation — as if more could be added, or that a picture could never be complete — embodied in the Post-its that dot the surface of the splotchier "Three Dead Trees (After Object)" (2019) with handwritten notes.
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Add that to the worst drought in history that parched the state from 23 to 2014, throw in some voracious bark beetles, and you get 129 million dead trees in California, drying out and magnifying the risk of yet another devastating wildfire for the state.
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An early acquaintance of F. T. Marinetti and Wyndham Lewis, he diverges from Futurist and Vorticist influences in his print, "That Cursed Wood" (27), a bleak image of dead trees emerging from the pockmarked ground, as biplanes circle overhead like ravens in the gray sky.
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Their abundance, variety (there could be as many as 30 million species), and ubiquity mean insects play a foundational role in food webs and ecosystems: from the bees that pollinate the flowers of food crops like almonds to the termites that recycle dead trees in forests.
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Essentially, their analysis shows that while it wouldn't make financial sense for power companies to go around looting the forest for dead trees just to do it, the economics start to become favorable when you consider the fact that removing dead wood could effectively subsidize wildfire prevention.
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In the area immediately to the east of Paradise, dead trees had been extensively logged and removed on both private and public lands, and commercial "thinning" operations had been conducted across large expanses of the nearby Plumas National Forest, supposedly to protect nearby towns from wildland fire.
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Walk up the fabulous staircase to Level 2 to see the sculpture display, then go to Level 4 and walk across the bridge that connects the two buildings, pausing to admire Ai Weiwei's 22-foot sculpture created from parts of dead trees, in the Turbine Hall below.
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Between the lines: Also on Monday, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who oversees the National Park Service and vast tracts of federal lands across the country, echoed Trump in blaming the severe fires on shortsighted policies, this time preventions to clearing dead trees from areas vulnerable to fire.
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In 33, the US Forest Service was forced to close the famed Trail of 100 Giants in Sequoia National Forest — a hiking trail that includes around 125 giant sequoias, some estimated to be nearly 1,500 years old — amid concerns that dead trees along the trail were at risk of falling on hikers.
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Many areas of the West — where timber cutting has declined and even the thinning of trees for fire safety is sometimes contested by conservation groups — are choked with younger smaller trees that can burn readily, patches of thick undergrowth or blighted areas where insects or disease have left dead trees standing in place.
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" Adding dead trees to the equation, a study from February 22015 in the journal BioScience found "The scale of present tree mortality is so large that greater potential for 'mass fire' exists in the coming decades, driven by the amount and continuity of dry, combustible, large woody material that could produce large, severe fires.
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As the study puts it: A set of experimental studies have drawn on the social psychological literature on subliminal priming to examine whether priming people with environmental cues of climate change (for example, turning up the heat in the laboratory; placing dead trees around participants) has an effect on their belief in climate change.
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But it's the approach that won the day in the White House and allowed Trump to get what he wanted: the ability to move ahead without Congress.. The budget office is also discussing ways to channel Trump's anger about the California wildfires into a policy response — most likely by attaching conditions to disaster relief funding to encourage states to take more preventive steps against future wildfires, like conducting controlled burns to get rid of dead trees.
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