A graphic reminder...

SaveTheSky

Another topical film for 2012

A topical film for 2012.

It is general public knowledge that trees reduce air pollution and usually for combating traffic pollution. This method of abatement has been promoted to the public because the pollutants carried by the air settle and attach to the foliage rather than circulating in our homes and lungs. Thank you trees.

Now that we see that trees and plants are now dead or dying, we could say that the trees did their job, and all is well. All is not well.

Here is one database to check.

For one public agency advisory 

For you U2 Bono-on-the-Edge-of-Denial-while-the-ancient-Joshua-Trees-die-off-forever-while-the-Great-EdgerMatic-Power-Weed-Wha-KKK-er-builds-his-Mount-Malibu-bunker.

But, back home...

THIS IS A SMALL SAMPLING OF EVERYDAY HARD TO MISS FOLIAGE IN SEVERE ILL HEALTH. YOU DO NO NEED AN ARBORIST TO KNOW THE TREES ARE DYING.
"Nature, rightly questioned, never lies." A Manual for Scientific Inquiry- 1859

AND... HERE ARE SOME MORE RECENT PHOTO-EVIDENCE OF FOLIAGE DEMISE IN SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101.

HERE ARE SOME MORE RECENT PHOTO-EVIDENCE OF FOLIAGE DEMISE IN SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101.

HERE ARE SOME RECENT PHOTO-EVIDENCE OF FOLIAGE DEMISE IN SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101. I TAKE NO PLEASURE IN POSTING THESE BUT AIR POLLUTION IS KILLING OUIR PLANT LIFE. CHLOROPHYLL AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS HAS BEEN BURIED BY  BLACK POWDERED TRAFFIC DUST.

I don't need an arborist to tell me why the trees are dying.

Coastal So. Cal...93101
2011 has seen many drastic changes in the local flora. It is saddens me to document and report these changes.
PIC 1: The lesions on the holly? type hedge is on a hedge I have seen every day for the past 14 years. Many hedges in the area are becoming transparent. The wild birds who usually thrive in the foliage will soon be homeless or dead.

A very small sample: