The Largest Single Living Thing on Earth is Dying

[longknife]

Photo by Dale Day


40,000 trees all joined together by a single root system. One massive tree! Thought to be 8,000 years old.


Think about it.

The Pando aspen is dying due to drought and, as is so often the case, the intrusion of humans. Mankind – the most destructive agent on the face of this earth.

The forest has been failing to self-reproduce for the last 30 to 40 years, researchers say, due primarily to grazing from deer and cattle, which have been allowed to overrun the area.

“While Pando has likely existed for thousands of years – we have no method of firmly fixing its age – it is now collapsing on our watch,” Professor Paul Rogers, an ecologist at Utah State University, told the Independent.

More @ 'Largest living thing,' an 80,000-year-old Utah forest, is dying, scientists warn

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Don't mess with the tree.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Michael Moore?

 

[Gracie]

Photo by Dale Day


40,000 trees all joined together by a single root system. One massive tree! Thought to be 8,000 years old.


Think about it.

The Pando aspen is dying due to drought and, as is so often the case, the intrusion of humans. Mankind – the most destructive agent on the face of this earth.

The forest has been failing to self-reproduce for the last 30 to 40 years, researchers say, due primarily to grazing from deer and cattle, which have been allowed to overrun the area.

“While Pando has likely existed for thousands of years – we have no method of firmly fixing its age – it is now collapsing on our watch,” Professor Paul Rogers, an ecologist at Utah State University, told the Independent.

More @ 'Largest living thing,' an 80,000-year-old Utah forest, is dying, scientists warn

Then maybe the forestry service should water it? Get a tree doctor and fence it off to keep it alive?

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Photo by Dale Day


40,000 trees all joined together by a single root system. One massive tree! Thought to be 8,000 years old.


Think about it.

The Pando aspen is dying due to drought and, as is so often the case, the intrusion of humans. Mankind – the most destructive agent on the face of this earth.

The forest has been failing to self-reproduce for the last 30 to 40 years, researchers say, due primarily to grazing from deer and cattle, which have been allowed to overrun the area.

“While Pando has likely existed for thousands of years – we have no method of firmly fixing its age – it is now collapsing on our watch,” Professor Paul Rogers, an ecologist at Utah State University, told the Independent.

More @ 'Largest living thing,' an 80,000-year-old Utah forest, is dying, scientists warn

Talk about double speak and totally clueless

The Pando aspen is dying due to drought and, as is so often the case, the intrusion of humans.
The forest has been failing to self-reproduce for the last 30 to 40 years, researchers say, due primarily to grazing from deer and cattle, which have been allowed to overrun the area.

Maybe the writer of this article can go out and shoot himself, thus making the world just a little safer.

You know something? There are only 2 things guaranteed in this world.

Death

and

Taxes.

There is nothing on God's green Earth that can live forever.

 

[Cellblock2429]

Photo by Dale Day


40,000 trees all joined together by a single root system. One massive tree! Thought to be 8,000 years old.


Think about it.

The Pando aspen is dying due to drought and, as is so often the case, the intrusion of humans. Mankind – the most destructive agent on the face of this earth.

The forest has been failing to self-reproduce for the last 30 to 40 years, researchers say, due primarily to grazing from deer and cattle, which have been allowed to overrun the area.

“While Pando has likely existed for thousands of years – we have no method of firmly fixing its age – it is now collapsing on our watch,” Professor Paul Rogers, an ecologist at Utah State University, told the Independent.

More @ 'Largest living thing,' an 80,000-year-old Utah forest, is dying, scientists warn

/----/ Someone should turn on the lawn sprinkler.

 

[JLW]

It is a disgrace that so many morons make light of the dying environment around us. It part of our increasingly brain dead culture.

 

[Pogo]

Photo by Dale Day


40,000 trees all joined together by a single root system. One massive tree! Thought to be 8,000 years old.


Think about it.

The Pando aspen is dying due to drought and, as is so often the case, the intrusion of humans. Mankind – the most destructive agent on the face of this earth.

The forest has been failing to self-reproduce for the last 30 to 40 years, researchers say, due primarily to grazing from deer and cattle, which have been allowed to overrun the area.

“While Pando has likely existed for thousands of years – we have no method of firmly fixing its age – it is now collapsing on our watch,” Professor Paul Rogers, an ecologist at Utah State University, told the Independent.

More @ 'Largest living thing,' an 80,000-year-old Utah forest, is dying, scientists warn

Talk about double speak and totally clueless

The Pando aspen is dying due to drought and, as is so often the case, the intrusion of humans.
The forest has been failing to self-reproduce for the last 30 to 40 years, researchers say, due primarily to grazing from deer and cattle, which have been allowed to overrun the area.

Maybe the writer of this article can go out and shoot himself, thus making the world just a little safer.

You know something? There are only 2 things guaranteed in this world.

Death

and

Taxes.

There is nothing on God's green Earth that cannot live forever.

Really chaps your ass that somebody reported what was going on huh Heinie?

Have any idea what grazing has done to Scotland? No of course you don't.

 

[caddo kid]

It is a disgrace that so many morons make light of the dying environment around us. It part of our increasingly brain dead culture.

Republicans are really good at that

 

[longknife]

It is a disgrace that so many morons make light of the dying environment around us. It part of our increasingly brain dead culture.

Republicans are really good at that

Ignorant stereotyping with no backup.

 

[caddo kid]

It is a disgrace that so many morons make light of the dying environment around us. It part of our increasingly brain dead culture.

Republicans are really good at that

Ignorant stereotyping with no backup.

Repubs hate environmental regulation, they hate clean air & clean water, they don't care if the nation is polluted, they want to open federal lands to oil production, they believe 'climate change' is a hoax & they love to be labeled 'deniers.'

Doesn't matter is it's stereotyping, or not; it's still true. Deal with it.

 

[Old Rocks]

It is a disgrace that so many morons make light of the dying environment around us. It part of our increasingly brain dead culture.

Republicans are really good at that

Ignorant stereotyping with no backup.

You are completely wrong on that. The GOP and Trump are working to kill as many environmental regulations as possible. To allow the pollution of our air and water with all kinds of toxic industrial pollution. Mercury, lead, any of the heavy metals, does not matter to them, as long as someone makes a buck off of it, who cares what it does to children.

 

[tycho1572]

Every living thing will eventually die. That's a simple fact some people refuse to accept.

 

[Old Rocks]

Every living thing will eventually die. That's a simple fact some people refuse to accept.

So, what you are saying it that, since every living thing will eventually die, that if we make that eventually come much sooner for everything, no big deal. Well, everything includes your sorry ass. At least that would improve the world.

 

[tycho1572]

Every living thing will eventually die. That's a simple fact some people refuse to accept.

So, what you are saying it that, since every living thing will eventually die, that if we make that eventually come much sooner for everything, no big deal. Well, everything includes your sorry ass. At least that would improve the world.

The cycle of life is understood and accepted. It’s been happening for millions of years.

 

[Old Rocks]

So, because things die naturally, it is just OK to kill them all off early? To create the sixth great extinction? You really think that? Damn.

 

[tycho1572]

So, because things die naturally, it is just OK to kill them all off early? To create the sixth great extinction? You really think that? Damn.

Some living things die from natural changes. We shouldn’t blame ourselves for that.

 

[Sunsettommy]

From the link,

"Rogers and his colleague examined a 72-year series of aerial photographs that revealed the forest's decline, which showed that it has thinned over time as humans have expanded into it by cutting down trees."

This is a problem going back DECADES.

The overgrazing, the improper thinning of trees and the chronic abuse of the land.

The BLM is the main culprit for forest and land Mismanagement that have been going on for decades. Trump has nothing to do with it since it started long ago, long before he started his road to wealth and power.

Partisanship babblings doesn't impress me.

 

[Old Rocks]

The changes we are seeing today are not natural. Simple fact.

 

[harmonica]

what is the Great Barrier Reef considered?
largest living thing or structure ?
what's the difference?
What is the largest living structure on Earth?