The Twilight Forest - Ferguson Gary

With their towering, cinnamon-colored trunks and dusky green canopies,ponderosa pine has long been a charismatic icon of the AmericanWest. Yet a quiet unraveling has begun:in the past decade, in a vastarea from Santa Feto the Sierras, more than two hundred million ponderosa have died. While some trees willsurvive in cooler places, scientists estimate that by mid-century less than five percentof the ponderosa in the American Southwest may remain. As the very character of this vast region shifts, what... Zobrazit více