California drought leads to mass tree felling across Los Angeles
Desdemona Despair
By Adam Justice
7 July 2015City officials in Los Angeles have said they don’t have enough water to irrigate all the trees in the city, so they are cutting down roughly 14,000 of those that are dead or dying from drought.
”It’s difficult to say the specific cause of death. But the drought is a very much a very real contributing factor,” said Laura Bauernfeind, ground maintenance supervisor for the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.
According to Kirsten Fisher, an assistant professor of biology at California State University in Los Angeles, there are numerous consequences that tree removal may have on local ecosystems and on park visitors.
“So if we take out trees and don’t replace them it has a heat island effect. But it also reduces habitat for wild animals, so birds that are migrating through or other animals that rely on trees for shelter and food will not have those trees anymore. So of course, they will be eliminated.
“And a lot of those animals provide other ecosystem services. Like pollination of our flowers and our trees. They won’t be around to do that. So that’s a problem. And then on a sort of mental health note, trees in our environment really improve our mood, improve our emotions and our emotional state, and so removing them will also have sort of a emotional or psychological impact on city residents as well,” said Fisher. [more]
California drought leads to mass tree felling across Los Angeles
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