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Ran across this video of the mudslides in San Bernardino California lately...

Scary stuff!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANP4bZmaxeY

And another... This is dangerous stuff!!! And destructive!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvYj0i53HHE

There was one years back that I will never forget.

Took me awhile but I found a copy:

https://youtu.be/84ufHp8jcRk

Was just reading a news article that said fire and drought have wiped out a third of the trees in Califonia in the last decade....a third.

Without vegetation to absorb water and hold the ground together the soil just liquifies when it rains hard and pours downhill like wet concrete.

As far as natural disasters go they don't get much worse than a landslide. About the only thing more capable of altering the landscape would be a volcano or 8.0+ earthquake.

30%? That sounds so wrong. I can rest that myth that we lost a third of our trees. Not a chance.

This is more accurate... and more believable: "From 2000 to 2020, California experienced a net change of -466kha (-3.4%) change in tree cover."

Dunno how three and a half percent became thirty percent, but odd things happening in the media and elsewhere these days. My data came from here: https://www.globalforestwatch.org/dashb ... owMap=true


I did see data that California lost 30%-40% of the total trees lost IN THE USA (not total in California alone) in the year 2020, but that's when we had a lot of massive fires and that only accounts for one year. That's not the norm. We had nothing like that the following 2 years, and fire season is over for 2022.

The news makes it sound sometimes like half of the state is in flames even though these big fires really only cover the tiniest of plots in a huge state.

We still have lots of trees! Just forget desert clime southern California where the grass fires and mudslides are and go north where the forests and the biggest trees in the world are found. Northern Cal gets 10 inches of rain for every inch San Francisco in MID California see's each year, hence heavily forested. We just need the rain back to feed it all! https://www.google.com/search?q=califor ... 1&dpr=1.25

BogDog wrote:I did see data that California lost 30%-40% of the total trees lost IN THE USA (not total in California alone) in the year 2020, but that's when we had a lot of massive fires and that only accounts for one year. That's not the norm. We had nothing like that the following 2 years, and fire season is over for 2022.

My bad, must've read something wrong. That does make a lot more sense thinking about it.

No worries.

Thinking about, there had been a lot of new developments and new residents coming in the state from 2000 to 2020. A lot of that 3.5% of tree loss may have been simply from cutting them down to build new homes. At least in the upper half of Calif.