Attack of the Trees! Treeline creeps up mts

[G-spotter]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8218000/8218335.stm

[olyclimber]

Ents.

 

Once, when driving out to Port Townsend (cruising at about 60 mph) I noticed a small branch out of the corner of my eye almost hitting the windshield, and then heard brushing the rear window. I looked in the rearview and there was an alder tree across the road I had just driven on, about 3 feet in diameter. Later that month I read in the paper that a person was killed when a tree randomly fell on them on the Kitsap Peninsula.

 

Also, would you like to be out in the woods when this puppy snapped?

This thing was about 4-4.5 feet in diameter, and had core rot except the outer foot of the tree:

 

[G-spotter]

There's a huge exploded tree out in Hope right next to Mike's sport wall. It looks like a bomb went off in the phloem and xylem.

[Pete_H]

More CO2 in the atmoshphere more vegetation.

[rocky_joe]

Watch "The Purist"

 

funny stuff that. looks like this rising treeline business is good for some of us.

[Chaps]

Gosh, I've belayed WAY harder and have been belaying for way longer than that fellow in "Take". He's a rip off. Probably one of you miscreants. Hell, I've belayed new new routes and didn't tell anyone.

[t_rutl]

did you see The Happening?

 

i tell you...it's coming...

[JBo6]

So who do I talk to about getting my money back for The Happening?

[olyclimber]

THANKS FOR SPRAYING ON THE CLIMBING BOARD DRU. AND YES I KNOW YOU USED THE WORD "MTS" IN YOUR POST.

[olyclimber]

 

oh...i see I sprayed too. doh.

[olyclimber]

**moving this thread to spray in order to get kevbone's take on the story**

[Pete_H]

It might be next week before he gets through it. There weren't a lot of pictures and many of the words had more than two syllables.

[RuMR]

hahaha...he'll definitely get stumped by dru's words...xylum, isn't that some kind of musical instrument in a van halen song???

 

or phloem...that'll stump him...he'll have to call pinkeye to figger that one out...

[AlpineK]

The meristem produces both xylem and phloem. Old phloem turns into the periderm, and old xylem turn into heartwood.

 

Are any of those Van Halen songs? or Eddy solos???

 

[Choada_Boy]

I just coughed up a big wad of phloem.

[cam]

" ... this Christmas will be different, this Christmas the trees have had enough, this Christmas the trees will fight back"

 

http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/beware-the-furious-foliage-its-jason-eiseners-treevenge/