Texas Drought Caused The Deaths Of Millions of Trees

[Tx4obama]

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- A preliminary state estimate says as many as a half-billion trees died this year across Texas from the drought persisting across much of the state.

The Texas Forest Service said in a statement Monday that its foresters estimated that 100 million to 500 million trees died in the 2011 drought.

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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/20/texas-drought-trees_n_1159637.html


p.s. Right now 10 miles west of downtown Houston we are having a huge storm will lots of rain,
all the rain that we have been getting the past few weeks got here several months too late

[onestepforward]

1. I'm starting to get rain

on the NE side of Houston.

The city has thousands of trees marked for removal in my neighborhood. I am surrounded by neighbors who also need to have dead trees removed. It is so sad. It has been difficult and expensive, but I have been able to keep my 11 big trees alive so far.

[sonias]

2. Super heart breaking

If there is one thing that we need to beat the Texas heat is more trees not less. We're going to have a vicious cycle where less trees means more heat, more drought and more death of trees.

The latest rain has been nice and we welcome it, but many tree experts say this is no where near enough to save the trees that are in distress from this year's drought.

As a side note, I finally drove through the area that burned in Bastrop - it was a horrible sight. It's like the death of your soul to see such wide swath of burnt trees.

I am a treehugger and I'll cry with you.

[Gothmog]

3. The number of dead trees in Memorial Park in Houston is sad

My office is near Memorial Park in Houston. There are a large number of dead trees that have been identified and marked for removal on the dirve along Memorial Park. It is really very sad to see so many dead trees.