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Dead Trees in New Orleans East along Interstate / Bayou Sauvage
Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:52 am
Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:52 am
Anyone make this drive lately? What's with all of the dead mature trees in the bayou along interstate all of a sudden?
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Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:53 am to meeple
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What's with all of the dead mature trees in the bayou along interstate all of a sudden?
Drive by shootings?
Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:53 am to meeple
pics?
Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:54 am to meeple
saltwater from the last hurricane? i really dont know, but i've seen where you're talking about and i'm curious as well.
Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:56 am to meeple
Lots of dead cedars up my way in north AL. Looks to be a combo of the freeze and disease. Most hardwoods seemed to have made it fine.
Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:56 am to meeple
Innocent bystanders
Posted on 6/27/23 at 12:00 pm to meeple
Hope this doesn't frick crawfish prices
Posted on 6/27/23 at 12:01 pm to meeple
Where has Harvey Updyke been?
This post was edited on 6/27/23 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 6/27/23 at 12:20 pm to oVo
quote:He’s joined the trees in Toomer’s Corner, so to speak.
Where has Harvey Updyke been?
Posted on 6/27/23 at 12:45 pm to meeple
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New Orleans East along Interstate
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Anyone make this drive lately?
If so, and they are posting about it, they are lucky to be alive.
Posted on 6/27/23 at 12:48 pm to meeple
I have wondered as well. Looks like all of the willows have died. For whatever reason, the Chinese tallow trees appear to have survived whatever killed off the willows.
Posted on 6/27/23 at 12:52 pm to reddy tiger
I watched two bucks clash antlers right there by the michoud exit, on the island. . It was a cold December morning. 1990’s
This post was edited on 6/27/23 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 6/27/23 at 1:25 pm to meeple
I've seen plenty of dead/dying pine trees between Lafayette and Orange, TX.
I believe the twisting from the hurricanes has damaged the vascular systems and they just die.
I believe the twisting from the hurricanes has damaged the vascular systems and they just die.
This post was edited on 6/27/23 at 1:31 pm
Posted on 6/27/23 at 1:25 pm to meeple
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What's with all of the dead mature trees in the bayou along interstate all of a sudden?
Noticed that same on the other side around bonne carre spillway
Posted on 6/27/23 at 1:28 pm to meeple
Friend,
I assumed it was from saltwater intrusion, just like all the dead live oaks along Highway 1 on the way to Grand Isle. Was pleased to read about the big LaBranche wetlands restoration that has just begun. Uncle took me duck hunting there in the 90s, and where we hunted is now part of Lake Pontchartrain.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
I assumed it was from saltwater intrusion, just like all the dead live oaks along Highway 1 on the way to Grand Isle. Was pleased to read about the big LaBranche wetlands restoration that has just begun. Uncle took me duck hunting there in the 90s, and where we hunted is now part of Lake Pontchartrain.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Posted on 6/27/23 at 1:34 pm to meeple
It's all over New Orleans.
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The effects of the storm are still playing out, says Walker of Parks and Parkways. Live oaks often take years to show signs of damage, she says, and they’ve continued to die from saltwater exposure.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-10/new-orleans-tree-survey-shows-ongoing-effects-of-hurricane-katrina
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In part, the deforestation of New Orleans is a lingering legacy of Hurricane Katrina. Before the 2005 storm, which flooded some neighborhoods 10 feet deep in saltwater, trees shaded about 30% of city.
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Today, around two-thirds of neighborhoods have less than 10% canopy cover.
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New Orleans has the worst urban heat island effect in the US, with the city as a whole about nine degrees hotter than the surrounding landscape. The effect is most pronounced in the deforested neighborhoods identified in SOUL’s report, such as Central City and the Irish Channel, which can be as much as 18 degrees hotter than leafier areas like the Garden District and Bayou St. John.
Posted on 6/27/23 at 1:45 pm to Shexter
quote:The White Entitlement hits "just keep coming"!
New Orleans has the worst urban heat island effect in the US, with the city as a whole about nine degrees hotter than the surrounding landscape. The effect is most pronounced in the deforested neighborhoods identified in SOUL’s report, such as Central City and the Irish Channel, which can be as much as 18 degrees hotter than leafier areas like the Garden District and Bayou St. John.
Posted on 6/27/23 at 2:08 pm to Shexter
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New Orleans has the worst urban heat island effect in the US, with the city as a whole about nine degrees hotter than the surrounding landscape.
Keep this in mind when you discover that NOAA/NWS make it a priority to keep city and airport weather stations operational, but allow more rural stations to go months, or even years without repair. Currently only 17 out of 28 stations in the NOLA area actually report to the climate record as intended. Of those 17 only 10 actually record temperature and report it as intended. The other 7 only record precipitation.
Posted on 6/27/23 at 2:15 pm to Sam Quint
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saltwater
probably a good guess
Posted on 6/27/23 at 2:17 pm to soccerfüt
Canopy cover makes a huge difference in temperature in the city. Sad to see any city losing trees as opposed to planting as many as possible.
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