Trees are sacred living things. And they are not partisan. I imagine that even in those little addled teabag brains of theirs they know that these wonderful living things are good for our economy. If that's the only way they can view them, I mean. It certainly is going to cost us more money in the long run - so that's not good.

will favor their dying.

This is how they think. Just like how they WANT the economy to fail under Obama just so it can make him look bad, even if it hurts EVERYBODY.

the trees die, less carbon is removed from the air

As they decay the carbon sequestered in the wood is released back into the atmosphere.

it isn't quite as bad - but definitely I'm seeing a lot of dead (or dying) palm trees. The last few weeks we've gotten a lot of rain though. I paid to have carpet-cleaning for the whole house in mid-January & you know how that goes - constant rain ever since with the dog tracking in ...

They think the drought is over. It's not. False hope. People are back to their old ways quite quickly. I've seen people watering their lawns and planting new water thirsty grass. They keep forgetting the past. And it wasn't that long ago. Just last fall and summer.

There are many dead trees here. The utility cut many around their right-of-ways. Still, there are trees falling everywhere across highways. Not good. In the middle of summer here, it looked like late fall. The trees were really stressed. Now, we have plenty of rain. The lake is back above normal and my yard is saturated and has been for weeks. Over the last several weeks, we get rains of over an inch. I'm sure it won't be this way in a couple of months.

Pines (60'-80' tall) and water oaks. We bought the property because it was so heavily wooded. Heartbreaking.

With the recent rains, I have noticed a lot of pine seedlings currently sprouting. I saw three just in one little flower pot. I hope the rain will continue so that some of them will have a chance to grow into trees.

I hate to see trees die. And as it was, we had to remove a very large one that just wasn't going to make it. We just needed to face the facts, stop watering it and have it cut down. So very sad. Truly heartbreaking.

A picture/graph tells a thousand words. 80-90 percent of state is in severe drought with 60-70 in extreme drought conditions!

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and I hope we will continue to get much needed rain. I did notice that the drought has spread west into other states. Northern Mexico is hurting too.


(edited to add summer's drought map)