OK, People, Back To Reality

I would like to imagine that one of my loyal four readers is from the Pacific Northwest, & if so, sorry about this.

The higher mortality rates held regardless of tree size or type or elevation at which it grew. The fact that birth rates remained unchanged among the nearly 60,000 pines, firs, hemlocks and other trees in the study indicates that forests are losing trees faster than they are replacing them, the authors noted.