The High Sierra forest is dying, and you can't count the loss in dead trees

Re:The High Sierra forest is dying, and you can't count the ... by catscratch on Thursday October 06, 2016 @09:28PM (#12657492)

> 1) Drought. Severe drought. Trees need water. There's less of it.

Due to alfalfa, almond/pistachios, pastures, rice, corn, other field crops, vineyards, other truck crops, cotton, grain, and tomato, primarily, according to: http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/05/11/cows-not-almonds-...

I was surprised about alfalfa and pasture.

And "The cattle sector of the Brazilian Amazon, incentivized by the international beef and leather trades, has been responsible for about 80% of all deforestation in the region, or about 14% of the world's total annual deforestation, making it the world's largest single driver of deforestation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_ra...

Convince your friends not to eat as much meat, especially beef. It's bad for the environment.

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Re:The High Sierra forest is dying, and you can't count the ... by NoPiece on Thursday October 06, 2016 @10:45PM (#12657775)

Unless you believe rivers flow uphill into the mountains, farming has nothing to do with trees dying in the mountains. Salmon downstream in rivers have a complaint, trees upstream do not.

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