Boulder’s trees are suffering Systemic Environmental Collapse.
This summer of 2014 it is apparent that Boulder is losing 10% of its tree cover, both from tree death and branch death, along with at least 50% less green canopy cover. All the trees are living on borrowed time. I see a decline in all trees, it is just a matter of how much strength they have in them as to how long they last. Few people are even noticing. Next summer the shock will begin. We have had an unseasonally wettish summer...the sun however burns with a cruelty I have never before encountered...due to ozone loss no doubt. This tree loss is not due to soil, pests, disease or mineral deficiency, or water shortage. It is SEC...Systemic Environmental Collapse. You can mediate the symptoms to reduce the damage from excess UVB and radiation, but chances are the entire city will die back, and then regenerate 50 or 100 years down the line.
Although we have NCAR the atmospheric research station here, city officials seem to be at a loss as to why the trees are dying back and have set up insect catching devises around town to catch the offending tree murderer. Any mammal with skin should know that the sun contains more burning rays than before and that the FUKU radiation must have reduced the ozone layer in the northern hemisphere. The increased sunburn along with radiation in the rain and snow is reducing the immune system of the trees.
Some species are in more rapid decline than others, but generally leaf size is smaller, leaves are yellower, damaged and dying, bark is blistering, reproductive parts are disproportionate to the leaf cover as the trees try to “save” themselves. Trees naturally tend toward reproduction when their environments are stressed. However the symptoms the plants exhibit in Boulder are not normal by any means. Most trees except the locust are highly reproductive this year, branches are not weighted down with the leaf growth as usual, leaves smaller...some species more yellow than usual and chlorotic. It is the same in the hills as in the town...trees lose branches and whole trees die off right next to water courses as well as removed from them. Whole trees die off right next to surviving trees of the same species.
Some species are hit by strange leaf growths...possibly related to radioactive particles?
The biosphere follows cycles of vegetative, reproductive and senescence over the 11 year sunspot cycle. This year favors reproduction so there is plentiful fruit and seeds, while the leaves are much smaller, less green, the canopies are at around 50% less than normal. So we are probably in a high reproductive cycle according to the solar cycle. This must be affecting the entire northern hemisphere to one degree or another. Leaves are stressed by the loss of ozone layer from Fukushima radiation in the upper atmosphere increasing UVB radiation...even as the sun cycle itself is at a quiet phase. Plus increased nuclear radiation in the rain and snow. It will take 2 more years to see if this is a catastrophic dieoff, or if it is just a temporary phase of combination of solar and atomic influences.
Through a broad range of species, many trees are dying branch by branch from the top down. Conifer (pine) species are being hard hit perhaps because they have a lack of resources because they make the soil acid and impoverished, and because they do not lose their leaves. Last year I noticed the Thuja's going first, now many species of conifers are in their death throws. Juniper is still holding out because its leaves are fatter and more waxy. The deciduous trees are fairing better because they get new leaves each year with a fresh resistance to radiation.
Even leguminous nitrogen fixing trees are suffering from branch dieback and truncated yellowing leaf growth.
The loss of atmospheric ozone and the radiation from Fukushima is killing the trees in Boulder and indeed in much of the USA exposed to rainfall/snowfall, high altitude, high UV and drought. The trees most vulnerable are shallow rooters and those whose roots are covered with concrete, those with little soil organic matter or humus, demineralized soil, with little mycorrhizae and soil biota and exposed to vehicle exhaust. There is a sense that the trees immune systems are collapsing from a broad range of environmental stressors including drought, loss of water table, pollution, EMF pollution, radiation, excess solar radiation, demineralization, loss of soil organic matter and compromised soil biota.
With the tree branch die off, I assume it is a dieback of the root mass, forcing the tree to do a self-pruning of the upper branches. This tree dieoff is undoubtedly caused by a radiation reduction in the ozone layer, combined with radiation in precipitation destroying the microbal foundations of the tree roots starving certain more vulnerable trees. When microbes are depleted from the soils, they are no longer present to convert inorganic minerals into organic minerals needed by plants. Certain trees not in idea conditions or compromised by human structural interference such as concrete are dying first.
Tree damage in the hills is similar, minus the extra stresses of concrete, EMF and air pollution.
Even the trees right next to the stream are dying on the lower branches, a sign that the entire tree is on the way out, with the dying process taking 10 years or more. The branch dieoff is not simply due to the superheating of the trunk effect. The trees appear to be so stretched in their biological metabolism that they are making last ditched efforts to survive. Some trees are economizing by the dieback of underbranches that get little sun, while other branches on the tops of trees, are going, while still others all branches are dying and the trunk itself is sprouting foliage and suckers.
Note the cottonwood tree leaves are eaten to shreads by bugs...lower branches of the pines are dying off...
Although there may be some heavy metal poisoning from chemtrails they don't stick around in Boulder and we only have about 10 a month maximum over one or two days. However bromides they spray in the chemtrails may be contributing to the decline in the soil fungi/bacteria leaving the plants starving for minerals and other nutrients. The Fuku-radiation increase in the rain and snow is also no doubt impacting the soil microbal population. Boulder being at a higher elevation is more exposed to the loss of the ozone (from nuclear radiation) allowing more of the burning UVB. With this systemic collapse that is occurring...the trees can no longer tolerate car exhaust, roots covered by concrete, water fluctuations and insufficient soil organic matter and soil microbe life.
When the roots die off, the trees appear to "prune" themselves.
Competing symbiotic and radiological fungi—Another plausible theory on the cause of the self-pruning and tree die off could be the increased growth of radiation-loving fungi over the past few years since Fukushima in 2011. In Boulder there was an obvious rise in lush growth of tree-decomposing fungi after the nuclear accident. The symbiotic species of mycorrhizae that are in a mutual relationship with the trees may be killed by the radiation, or simply out-competed against by the radiation-loving fungi, whose action is to kill, breakdown and decompose trees that are weak or diseased.
I am thinking that our anti-life Borg technologies are reverting the tree of life ultimately back to its inorganic origins. Thus the primordial radiophilic fungi would be dominant in conditions in which the more evolved symbiotic mycorrhizae fungi and the immune system of the tree are undermined. In the same way bodies whose immune system and symbiotic good-bacterial population are compromised are a surefire candidate for opportunistic candida rot! In Systemic Environmental Collapse (SEC) the lifeforms closer to the beginnings of life take over, austensibly to "clean up" the mess and revert the Recipe for Cosmic Soup back to its essential ingredients in order to start life anew.
50% or more loss of foliage on this Blue Spruce, while heavily reproductive.
As life devolves more competitive and disruptive species take over, while the complexity needed to sustain systems-synergy and wholeness (health) breaks down. This competition between symbiotic vs. decomposing fungi would understandably result in a size reduction of the root zone of the trees, which would cause the tree to automatically self-limit both the leaf size and to self-prune branches in an effort to equalize or match the smaller root zone. If this theory of competing fungi is correct, this is good news, for the die off could be mediated through mulching, compost tea, mycorrhizae inoculation, remineralization with rockdust, leonardite, shaledust etc…
Staying on point with "the most important thing" is the most important thing. Not that one should succumb to a neurotic urgency, but simply to let poignancy seep into our bones and propel us to meaningful and timely action. To try and save something that is dying is not the best use of our efforts. Finding something capable of growth within the limitations and resource base we find ourselves—we can then apply concerted action.
I put rotted tree trunk mulch around a 4 year old tree whose top branches were dead.
Then I noticed that the trunk was covered with dark patches and the bark was separating. I knew then my efforts to "save" the tree were futile, and I would have to find a tree not so far gone to try my experiment of "saving the urban tree." From this experience I had been drawn to focus on looking at the trunks of the youngish 8ft trees that have been planted around the Twenty Ninth Street Mall that opened on October 13, 2006. What I saw shocked me to the core and gripped my heart in a vice.
The trunks are splitting, bark peeling and they are "blown" out by heat.
This is a result of Fukushima and the higher UVB sunlight due to the loss of northern hemisphere ozone. Unprotected by the shade of a larger canopy and under direct impact of the higher UVB sunlight the trunks have superheated...meaning that within 1 or 2 years every tree with inadequate solar protection is going to be dead. Not so for the larger established trees of course, they will take much longer to die. However knowing this all new plantings, and indeed some of these distressed trees could wear a shadecloth sleeve up their trunk which would protect it from heatstroke until the canopy is large enough to shade the trunk. Another possibility to cool the trunk would be to white wash them in spring with lime and dolomite to produce a reflective paint that ultimately washes off to feed the soil.
Reduced Decomposition surrounding Chernobyl: “The gist of our results was that the radiation inhibited microbial decomposition of the leaf litter on the top layer of the soil,” Mousseau says. This means that nutrients aren’t being efficiently returned to the soil, he adds, which could be one of the causes behind the slower rates of tree growth surrounding Chernobyl.”
Read more: http://www.smithsoni...YYGGAXFQlWfY.99
We don't have to worry about such extreme lack of decomposition here, in fact decomposition appears to be occurring just fine. The city removes its leaf fall...however this cannot occur indefinitely without a return of organic matter to the soil because soils here are already silty/sandy and need humus in order to be viable over the longterm. Ultimately if there is not enough humus in the soil tree death will create it by default.
While influences such as roundup would impact in agricultural areas, in the city and in the hills the similar death symptoms are observable—massive dieback of whole trees and branches, lower leaf % and smaller leaves. It is huge,,,not related to water, minerals, soils etc...secondary challenges are only speeding the dieoff that is already occurring. This is not mere climate change dieoff...it is SEC...Systemic Environmental Collapse. Systemic Environmental Collapse is a term I came up with to describe the changes to the ozone, sunlight UV, atomic radiation and how that affects the tree's microflora relationships and immune system.Even extreme drought damage looks "normal" compared to this. However there is still a lot of green related to the wet summer we are having...and this somewhat masks the devastation that is occurring...which will be very obvious to all next year.
This is a new phenomena for me to observe so I am documenting it and will try and find some arborists to talk to. Whatever is happening we need to get involved with finding the causes and the solutions. I estimate that within 10 years only the radiation resistant genres and those in ideal growing conditions will be alive. The city could save the trees by mulching with compost, inoculating with mycorrhizae and soil biota and remineralizing, compost tea, humalite/leonardite, and green cropping under trees with legume groundcovers. And reworking the hardtop surface runoff into sinks and swales to build up the water table throughout the city.
If people do not wake up and change their ways in 20 years most of America will be a dust bowl in which Mad Max reigns. With the aquifers tapped out and the ground tables fallen, the loss of tree cover means the air conditioning is gone, the land will bake-out producing a permanent high pressure which will keep the moisture laden ocean winds from equitable distribution over the land, rain will tend to run-off baked soils rather than seep in, soils will more rapidly erode, crops will fail. The people will go the same way as the American Indians before them, reduced to shanty towns and reservations. The greater proportion of the fresh water in the land bought out and poisoned by the oil industry.
While human populations have doubled in the past 35 years (and our abominable environmental practices along with that), invertebrate species are dying off. This includes spiders, butterflies, worms, and bees. Since insects pollinate roughly 75% of the world’s food crops, it is obvious that the loss of further invertebrates would further negatively impact modern civilization. According to a Stanford biology professor, Rodolfo Dirzo, the earth has begun its 6th mass extinction cycle – and it’s our fault. It is no longer possible to bear witness to the worldwide atrocities without working on a convincing alternative.
WHAT TO DO
There are several things that Boulder County can do to mediate the Systemic Environmental Collapse Syndrome (SECS) and the upcoming loss of tree cover of the city.
• Dead trees and branches need to be removed and chipped to avoid public knowledge of the dieoff and to avoid fire from lightning strike.
• The chipped material needs to be mixed with animal manure and/or human sewage in a rural compost station that uses a high heat composting method followed by fungal/mushroom transformation of the resulting humus.
• This composting station could be tapped for passive water heating and methane gas, thus generating the energy needed to run the station and heat greenhouses that grow the starter trees needed for replanting the city.
• Radiation resistant species such as Gingko, will need to be established over the next 5 years to replace those lost to radiation and loss of immunity.
• Radiation resistant plants are the ones commonly found in disturbed places such as roadsides, gravel bands and nutrient deficient or unstable soil. Red maple, red oak, Yew, Sambucus pubens, Polygonum cilinode, Comptonia peregrina and Epilobium augustifolium.
• The pattern of change to radiation involves first a reduction of diversity of the forest by elimination of sensitive species, then elimination of the tree canopy and survival of resistant shrubs and herbs.
• Rock Dust expert Donald Weaver, Mycorrhizae expert Paul Stamets and local compost tea expert John and Roland Evans www.bountea.com should be consulted in establishing the regreening program.
Folar spraying with humalite/kelp/compost tea.
• Permaculturalists Geoff Lawton and Andrew Faust need to be employed to develop a plan for a new surface water management system in the city which would allow for more water to enter the water table starting with swales and deep rooted grasses on the east side of the foothills themselves and throughout the city streets.
New water-sink structures need to be developed to allow water to seep in where now it is running off down storm drains.
• Natural wet space (small reeded swamp) areas can be created to filter water prior to entering the creek system…these would washout in storms, but process hydrocarbons and heavy metals during less severe weather.
For sure the microwave activity of all the wifi in town might be an added stress. Not even related to towers themselves, but simply the blanket of wifi interferring with the tree's EMF, signaling and their "souls" or blueprint.
Radioresistance is the property of organisms that are capable of living in environments with very high levels of ionizing radiation. Several cellular radioprotection mechanisms may be involved, such as alterations in the levels of some cytoplasmic and nuclear proteins and increased gene expression, DNA repair and other processes. The reason the smallest living things adapt swiftly to new threats like ionizing radiation has to with reproductive span. The faster you breed, the more quickly you can adapt. Larger forms of life breed, and therefor adapt, more slowly. So in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster (or war), the first to recover are naturally the smallest, but not because they are any simpler.
Chernobyl soya produced significantly different amounts of several dozen proteins, among which proteins that contribute to the production of seeds, as well as proteins involved in defending cells from heavy metal and radiation damage. "One protein is known to actually protect human blood from radiation. "http://www.newscient...6#.UmLjlCS9Erg.
I can send anyone a paper on saving urban trees which are threatened by soil sterilization (lack of soil organic matter and microflora) and also a piece on continental terraforming, suggesting the increased % of eucalyptus trees in Australia may be contributing to ongoing drought due to their emission of aromatic volatile (dispersing) particles into the upper atmosphere thus changing wind patterns and weather condition with respect to the ocean. I also have a paper on terraforming continents to regulate weather; and on reforestation vs. war; and remineralization.
Those who are not a student of Viktor Schauberger are not earth stewards.
Nature as Teacher: New Principles in the Working of Nature (Ecotechnology)
Fertile Earth, Viktor Schauberger.
www.geofflawton.com/fe/60356-food-forest-suburb —Food Forest Suburb - Geoff Lawton, building water-table through land management design
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1rKDXuZ8C0 —Permaculture Greening the Desert , Geoff Lawton
www.soilandhealth.org More info: www.remineralize.org
https://www.youtube....=lUsvPiwg6wU��— Richard Heinberg - The End of Growth, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2012 (Ides at the House)
https://www.youtube....eZzJU��—Richard Heinberg - Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
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