basquebromance
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Last time I was there it looked healthy...the bark Beatle ran its course and it looked green and beautiful...but that was about 3 years ago...I wanted to go again but now the road from the south is closed due to a landslide....The redwoods in BigSur and the Sequoias are hundreds of years old. They will survive. Or not. But I'm betting they will hang in there unless a forest fire wipes them out and even that won't kill them. Shoots will appear. They are tough and hardy.
Either a landslide or sane people trying to keep San Franciscans out and dynamited the road.Last time I was there it looked healthy...the bark Beatle ran its course and it looked green and beautiful...but that was about 3 years ago...I wanted to go again but now the road from the south is closed due to a landslide....The redwoods in BigSur and the Sequoias are hundreds of years old. They will survive. Or not. But I'm betting they will hang in there unless a forest fire wipes them out and even that won't kill them. Shoots will appear. They are tough and hardy.
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California never seems to have water problems or wildfires in their almond groves. I guess global warming doesn't happen there.
Exactly. And the thousands of new homes being built with 2, 3, 4 or more bathrooms, big lawns, and a pool aren't hurting for water, either. Somehow...
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how's that a climate issue?As mentioned above ... the redwoods are a vestige species ... 25 million years ago they were more common throughout the USA (or so they say) ... today the coastal form only lives within the fog belt, maybe up to 15 miles inland ... they're too tall to draw water up from the ground, they have to absorb it from the dew that accumulates on their leaves every morning ...
The problem is once a grove is clear cut, other species of trees come in and out-compete the very slow growing redwoods ... even with prompt re-planting ... the redwoods may never recover after a typical logging operation ... it's a very real possibility that the 95% of coastal redwoods harvested are gone forever, never to re-grow ...
They florish under hotter and wetter conditions ... so they should actually do better with global warming ... but you're insane if you think the climate will allow summer rainfall, just bozo nuts to think that ... the climate ain't changing where redwoods grow, period ...
Has nothing to do with climateCalifornia redwoods might grow from 2 to 3 ft annually but when stressed by lack of moisture and sunlight they might only grow an inch. The conditions for redwood health seem at odds with the current standards that lefties cite as "global warming".