60 million

[Nancy Howell]

Read an article in Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine last week that said in the 8 counties around Houston, they estimated some 60 million trees died because of the drought and heat last year.

Lost lots of trees on our place. Haven't even attempted to count them all. Really sad.

 

[Case e]

We have almost the same thing here in western Iowa, because of the Missouri river flooding, the bottoms are gonna look REALLY bare.

 

[paul]

We don't know what to expect here in southern MN, haven't had more than a 1/3 inch of rain event, no snow to speak of on the ground since July.

Really doesn't matter until April 'here' as we should be froze up until then, but.... Will the spring moisture come? Even in a drought, spring is never dry around here.....

Was supposed to get 8 inches of snow last week. Had almost a 1/2 inch. Next week is snow forcast every single day. Today's snow went north of is....

--->Paul

 

[oldtanker]

Paul we are in the same boat here near Fergus Falls. We are getting a little snow today but now they are saying 1-3 inches as opposed to the predicted 6-9.

Rick

 

[JimfromPA]

I think God intended things like this to happen as a way of cleansing and strengthening. Even deseases that wipe out large masses of people remove the weaker and rebuild a stonger group. I believe that all this Global warming crap is nothing more than nature fixing itself and we thinking we can alter the course is only our way of denying that God is present and greater than us.

 

[gitrib]

We lost three huge old trees on our farm, one in the fence line and one by the house and barn that are really old and huge. Have another in barn lot that does not look good.Imagine one in fence line is going to cause a problem. It is on our side of fence but provides shade on the Rodeo grounds and people set up camp under its shade, so somwone will raise a fuss when the chain saw goes after it. We are glad to see it go beause of shading our crop and taking the moisture. was just trying to be a good neighbor. gitrib

 

[donjr]

Put 'em on a truck an' ship 'em north to Lyle- he'll make kitty litter out of them---

 

[Billy NY]

Trees are something to admire, manage and look after where possible, anything you can do with the deadfall, logs for lumber, hardwoods for woodworking or firewood ? Eventually those dead ones will be habitat for wildlife.

We had quite a dry spell in the summer of 2010, and periodically, it does happen as I recall over the years, but the summer of 2010 was incredible, milkweed wilted before it went to seed, the topsoil layer and further below was like talc, I noticed this while moldboard plowing, making dust, that never happens. Some trees in shallow soils on bedrock certainly suffered, but in '99, it was also a hot summer and I can recall massive stands of trees, losing their leaves in early to mid summer along 287 in NJ on top of mountains and plateaus or what have you where the bedrock was close, not sure how many, if any came back, looked like winter time up there, never saw anything like it before, nor had I ever heard of it happening, then on the last day of August, or close to that hurricane floyd inundated the same area creating some flooding that was nearly as bad as what we got the exact same time late last summer.

 

[Charlie M]

We've got the emerald ash bore making its way through NY state and is going to leave a lot of dead trees behind it. In the 60's and 70's we had dutch elm disease go through and leave a lot of dead trees behind it. We know what its like to loose a lot of nice old trees.

 

[JayinNY]

Left alot of good firewood behind.

 

[Unruh]

SE South Dakota - I lost about 15 thirty foot tall Ponderosa Pine trees in our shelter-belt because it was too wet. Dr. Ball from the State College says that if the ground is "squishy" under your feet for more than three days the oxygen is depleted and the tree literally smothers. Before you plant trees, see to it that there is adequate drainage.

 

[Billy Shafer]

Had another fire yesterday just north of town. we have lots of trees down around this county. Going to take some time to clear them all out.

 

[TomR Ont]

jimfrompa

I'm about a hundred miles N/E of Toronto Ont and ever time I go in the bush I see more trees down. With the BURN BAN LAWS here the bugs just move to the next tree.
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"I believe that all this Global warming crap is nothing more than nature fixing itself and we thinking we can alter the course is only our way of denying that God is present and greater than us."

Now it's called CLIMATE CHANGE,
and an excuse to slap on a CARBON TAX that can be traded on an exchange and we'll pay both ends, just like the .67 electronic tax I paid on a mouse Sales tax is extra.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I think that I found your missing trees. Due to the massive snowfall last year the local Milk River flooded the valley around here for approx. 2 months. This flood killed all the hay fields and such. This past fall all those brown drowned out hayfields were green with new growth. They were all little cottonwood trees millions of them everywhere just a couple of years ago alot of talk about how the cottonwoods were dying off. It all seems to cycle independent of human control, wants, and wishes. Hope your trees come back quickly.

 

[Joe Shmoe]

Be glad you dont have the Emerald Ash borer bug that has destroyed all the ash trees in Southern Michigan and is spreading. Do a search on the net for it. One friend of mine spent a whole winter cutting up ash trees (3 years ago) he is in East central Michigan. It is nice firewood but what a waste. The bug is almost impossible to stop too.

 

[old popper]

Hah. I know where your 8" of snow went. We got 8 1/2" Thursday here in NW Iowa. I live just north of Cherokee Ia. Not complaining, we need the moisture too.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I have taken 3 years to try and get 6 gum trees growing.
In Feb 10 we had a big flood, now I have hundreds of gums growing randomly everywhere in the paddocks. can't beat nature.

 

[JML755]

I've got some trails through the woods on my property in SE Michigan. Yesterday, had to cut 3 trees that fell across them in the last 3-4 weeks. 4 more HUGE trees fell across a creek. Have to wait until summer to get those. As for new growth, my paths are filled with saplings (not sure what kind of tree, probably poplar) that sprout up real fast. I got one that is about 1/4" in diameter, 5 ft tall that is growing through a boardwalk I put down over a wet area last summer. Nature has a way of taking care of itself, as others said. The emerald ash borer HAS wiped out a lot of my trees, but others will take their place.

 

[GordoSD]

Nancy, About how amny acres would that involve?