Across the Pacific Northwest, firs are dying in record numbers as beetles, fire, and extreme heat

[flying_wahini]

test the trees’ endurance.

Fir trees in the Pacific Northwest have died off in record numbers in 2022 after three years of severe drought and heat waves, according to U.S. Forest Service researchers.

In some parts of Oregon, more than half of the fir trees have died, clearly visible as the evergreen conifer turns brick red. These mortality events are not unheard of, but this is twice as bad as any that has been recorded since the agency started tracking forest health in 1947.



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[Wounded Bear]

1. It's moving north from California as climate change takes hold...nt

[Irish_Dem]

2. I wonder what things will look like in a hundred years.

From a flora and fauna standpoint.

[Elessar Zappa]

9. My area is expected to change

from a primarily ponderosa pine forest to a juniper forest. I live in the mountains of southern New Mexico.

[Irish_Dem]

10. I am in the midwest and we have already gone to a warmer growing season.

The weather is a bit milder but more dramatic and unpredictable.

[Easterncedar]

3. Central Ontario looks like the end of the world

Some parts. Skeletal trees for miles. The places I loved best as a child are bleak and barren. It’s heartbreaking.

[Chakaconcarne]

4. When I was in BC, NWT this summer I did not see the patches of brown in their vast forests.....

Here and there, but nothing as extensive as here in OR. But they also have ginormous lakes everywhere that would put most of what we have to shame... can't help but think that's helping.

[flying_wahini]

7. I was there last fall and the beetles are taking a great toll. That and the wildfires.

Plus with all the clear cutting for growth I’d vast apt blogs it’s being developed into another big parking lot.

[Calculating]

5. We need to bioengineer trees that are immune to the beetles

It's the only way

[Tree Lady]

6. I had two pretty new evergreen trees die

few years ago during two weeks in June of 100 degree weather. They looked perfect for two months then heat took them out. Didn't matter how we watered.

They weren't small we paid more to get 5-6 ft tall.

[flying_wahini]

8. We ALL need to plant more trees.