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The goldspotted oak borer is just 14 miles from the Santa Monica Mountains' 600,000 oak trees and threatens to devastate forests throughout California, harming wildlife and increasing fire risks.
Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert. Melody Petersen. May 31, 2024 at 3:00 AM. Joshua trees, such as this 25-foot-tall specimen that is 150 to 200 years old ...
Girdling, also called ring-barking, is the circumferential removal or injury of the bark (consisting of cork cambium or "phellogen", phloem, cambium and sometimes also the xylem) of a branch or trunk of a woody plant. Girdling prevents the tree from sending nutrients from its foliage to its roots, resulting in the death of the tree over time ...
The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) is a species of bark beetle native to the forests of western North America from Mexico to central British Columbia. It has a hard black exoskeleton, and measures approximately 5 millimetres (1⁄4 in), about the size of a grain of rice. In western North America, an outbreak of the beetle and ...
The Aratina Solar Project in Boron, California, is approved to destroy nearly 4,000 ancient Joshua Trees in this forest…These iconic trees have stood for centuries, providing habitat for ...
The Asian long-horned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) was first introduced into the U.S. in 1996, and was expected to infect and damage millions of acres of hardwood trees. As of 2005 thirty million dollars had been spent in attempts to eradicate this pest and protect millions of trees in the affected regions. [ 96 ]
Over the past three years, two massive fires — the 2020 Dome Fire and 2023 York Fire — ravaged the Mojave National Preserve, killing an estimated 2.5 million Joshua trees, according to Erin ...
Luna (tree) Coordinates: 40°26′18″N 124°3′10″W. Luna is a 1,500-year-old, 200-foot-tall (61 m) [1] coast redwood tree located near the community of Stafford in Humboldt County, California, which was occupied for 738 days by forest activist Julia Butterfly Hill and saved by an agreement between Hill and the Pacific Lumber Company.