OSU study examines decline in Douglas-fir trees

Hotter and drier conditions in recent years have impacted the population of Oregon’s state tree, with wildfires making things worse.

[georgecurtis]

In the sieras, for me it would be sequoia nat park. It seems more than half are dead or dying. No rain makes them weakmandxthus makes them susceptible to the beetle that then kills them off. Fires last year killed so much more. Sad. Beyond sad.

[americanmilitiaman]

Far too many trees for healthy forests. Trees over crowd each other. Look at photos of the early 1900s. Healthy forests.

[GregariousAntithesis]

Wrong, its because of not letting fire do its job forever as the policy of the forest service to put out forest fires not let them run their natural course. The problem is not just in Oregon and we have had drought cycles forever but we havent always put out forest fires until we had aircraft it was almost impossible to gight forest fires.

[bmolitor]

dang, I've been seeing the cedars die but not Doug firs...

[IWumbo]

To many people cutting down Christmas trees