While the sight of a large live oak with a V-trim, can be shocking (see photo), one has to think, Why is this large tree planted underneath these power lines? The utility line clearance guys get to deal with a wrong tree, wrong place situation. The bottom line is, they are protecting our power lines from malfunctioning in high-wind events when the wires are surrounded by a menace lots of tree branches! To avoid hat-racking trees (which resprout quickly and are back in the wires sooner than...

usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Print Email Smog increases fire threat Pollution stunts tree roots, alters soil Andrew Silva, Staff Writer Article Launched:05/14/2007 12:00:00 AM PDT Mountain residents are all too familiar with the multiple-whammy that turned the San Bernardino National Forest into a tinder box earlier this decade. usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Print Email Smog increases fire threat Pollution stunts tree roots, alters soil Andrew Silva, Staff Writer...

The fire s edge got to a kilometre west of Highway 527, forcing a short-term closure due to poor visibility caused by smoke, fire information Dave Jackson said Sunday evening. Cottagers just north of Thunder Bay were asked to leave their properties Sunday afternoon after a forest fire started and grew at a rapid rate in the Pace Lake area, 50 kilometres north of the city. Between 200 and 300 people those staying at camps and lodges in the Gunflint area around the international border have...

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The aim was also to stop deforestation when 50 percent of the world's tropical forests remained. The findings were published on Friday in the international journal Science from the first study of its kind by Canadell, of Australia's government-backed Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, and an international team of experts from the United States, Britain, Brazil and France. Even slowing the amount of clearing of tropical forests could significantly cut the amount...