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Many researchers, Buhl included, are now arguing that these drought-driven die-offs are the beginning of a much larger and long-predicted shift in tree growing ranges due to climate change.
Christine Buhl, a forest health specialist for the Oregon Department of Forestry, plunges a tool called an increment borer into the dead tree’s trunk. Twisting the handle of the corkscrew-like borer, Buhl extracts a long, thin sample of the tree’s inner growth rings. The rings become thinner over time, indicating the tree’s growth slowed before the tree finally died, a sign that this red cedar, like thousands of others in Oregon and Washington, died from drought.
After three decades of providing affordable living and studio space for artists in Toronto, Artscape set out to develop a new co-working and creative project called Launchpad. That’s when it all began to unravel
A proposal to bail out a flailing police district near San Francisco was postponed after its sponsor realized he did not have enough votes.
Developer John Basalyga is seeking lower taxes on some of his highest-profile projects.