[CANUFNET] Climate change impacting forests on west coast of North America

[Rhea Dawn Mahar]

All the more reason to plant more trees.

News Release:

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2115

 UBC Geographer Demonstrates Tree Deaths Have Doubled

Climate change may be to blame for a sharp increase in tree mortality, 
according to a study co-authored by UBC biogeographer Dr. Lori Daniels. 
The study found that the increase in dying trees has been pervasive. 
Tree death rates have increased across a wide variety of forest types, 
at all elevations, in trees of all sizes, and in pines, firs, hemlocks, 
and other kinds of trees.
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Rhea Dawn Mahar
Community Advisor, NS
Tree Canada