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FakeNoose

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3. Maybe groves of sequoia can be started in places that aren't so rainfall-challenged?

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Fri Jul 15, 2022, 07:26 PM

Jul 2022

Pennsylvania or upstate New York get a lot more rain than some areas of California. Or perhaps the mountains of West Virginia, Kentucky and western Virginia? Unless they try it, they will never know whether it's possible.

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Once thought to be basically immortal, sequoias are now dying in droves [View all] Nevilledog Jul 2022 OP

See them while you can, I guess . . . . hatrack Jul 2022 #1

Bristlecone Pines, also ancient trees, are dying by the 1,000s in the mountains above Death Valley hatrack Jul 2022 #2

Maybe groves of sequoia can be started in places that aren't so rainfall-challenged? FakeNoose Jul 2022 #3

Michigan NickB79 Jul 2022 #7

"Parking Lot" by Joni Mitchell: SCantiGOP Jul 2022 #4

If you're going to quote the lyrics, please quote them correctly. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2022 #13

No big deal, but SCantiGOP Jul 2022 #19

I'm old enough to remember when that song came out. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2022 #21

We just can't have nothin! Chainfire Jul 2022 #5

K & R x 1000 Duppers Jul 2022 #6

Canary in the coalmine. Maybe our species will pay attention to this one... Lancero Jul 2022 #8

No they won't Rebl2 Jul 2022 #10

That's the evidence-based conclusion**nm misanthrope Jul 2022 #16

Fuck SalviaBlue Jul 2022 #9

+1, uponit7771 Jul 2022 #22

We humans sometimes really mess up badly. Imagine ...we are at least partly KPN Jul 2022 #11

A little knowledge Botany Jul 2022 #12

Oh, knew about the fire part but not the clouds/fog part. electric_blue68 Jul 2022 #18

Everything that lives eventually dies. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2022 #14

Sequoias Actually Need These Fires... GB_RN Jul 2022 #15

"These fires" are not what the trees need . . . . hatrack Jul 2022 #17

Dammit, reality is moving closer to Silent Running HuskyOffset Jul 2022 #20