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What can be done to deal with the death of trees, then? Mass planting of resistant species?
by TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
What can be done to deal with the death of trees, then? Mass planting of resistant species?
- Afforess 11y agoNature abhors a monoculture. Forests with 'resistant' strains will end up causing more problems if they are only a few types of trees. Maybe we should do nothing, and let trees that are more capable of surviving fill in the gaps left by the oaks.
- bdamm 11y agoWhere I live (Sierra foothills), the Oaks are enjoying the space opened up by the Pine tree die-off thanks to bark beetle. People are paying thousands of dollars to cut down towering pines. I have five enormous oaks and four full-size pines on my 1 acre lot. That adds up to a potential liability of $18,000 or more. Doing nothing does not sound appealing.
- jandrese 11y agoThis is the natural cycle of things. The dead trees will open up space for competitors to move in until some disease/insect/etc... comes in to clear out the new competitors and open up space for yet another competitor. It's really only a problem if the trees are crop trees and someone's livelihood is at stake (see: Orange Greening). Otherwise it's best (easiest) to just leave the problem alone and accept that something else will take the place of those trees.