Persuasive Speech On Sequoia Drought
If you’ve watched the news anytime in the past 4 years, you’d know that California is currently in an historic drought situation. So you would know that the people in California have been dealing with drought conditions for a while now, and they are not the most ideal. It’s sunny out, but you can’t necessarily fill your pool. You have to limit your showers, and you have to take a pause for watering your plants. What about the rest of nature? Are they getting the water needed for them to survive?
Sick-quoias
No, according to scientists, they’re not. This drought is stressing them out as well. This is especially a stressful time for the sequoias in Sequoia National Park. There leaves are browning, when they should still be green. These trees are some of the oldest living things in the world. In fact, some of them are up to …show more content…
3,000 years old. Their height reaches to around 300 feet, and they’re visited by people all around the world. The trees use up to 800 gallons a day, and recycle that water back into the system, but if there is no water in the underground system, what are they supposed to use? Is there anything that can be done to help them out?
Saving the Trees
Scientists from <a href=https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB4QFjAAahUKEwib4NWg7I_IAhXJOj4KHathCnk&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usgs.gov%2F&usg=AFQjCNGRI7XMoDtBIrJxYC34JYb8TJHRPQ&sig2=_lbawlMtRlbjahPyvIRpvw US Geological Survey Researchers are currently looking into the more vulnerable areas of the Sierra Nevada Sequoia groves, and trying to figure out which parts they should be the most concerned about.
They are climbing the trees that have the more browned foliage on them, and taking samples to test. They are also increasing the amount of times that they gather the information of the humidity and the temperature in the upper canopy of the trees. This will help them find out which groves need more sunlight and therefore need to go through a thinning process. This means that they will have a controlled burn so more sun can get through the darker areas. This burn will also help direct the underground water to the trees that need it the most. The hopeful news about the sequoias is that this severe lack of precipitation is not causing a large amount of them to die, unlike other trees in the same
conditions.
640px-Sequoia_sempervirens_Big_Basin_Redwoods_State_Park_4
Sick-quoias
No, according to scientists, they’re not. This drought is stressing them out as well. This is especially a stressful time for the sequoias in Sequoia National Park. There leaves are browning, when they should still be green. These trees are some of the oldest living things in the world. In fact, some of them are up to …show more content…
3,000 years old. Their height reaches to around 300 feet, and they’re visited by people all around the world. The trees use up to 800 gallons a day, and recycle that water back into the system, but if there is no water in the underground system, what are they supposed to use? Is there anything that can be done to help them out?
Saving the Trees
Scientists from <a href=https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB4QFjAAahUKEwib4NWg7I_IAhXJOj4KHathCnk&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usgs.gov%2F&usg=AFQjCNGRI7XMoDtBIrJxYC34JYb8TJHRPQ&sig2=_lbawlMtRlbjahPyvIRpvw US Geological Survey Researchers are currently looking into the more vulnerable areas of the Sierra Nevada Sequoia groves, and trying to figure out which parts they should be the most concerned about.
They are climbing the trees that have the more browned foliage on them, and taking samples to test. They are also increasing the amount of times that they gather the information of the humidity and the temperature in the upper canopy of the trees. This will help them find out which groves need more sunlight and therefore need to go through a thinning process. This means that they will have a controlled burn so more sun can get through the darker areas. This burn will also help direct the underground water to the trees that need it the most. The hopeful news about the sequoias is that this severe lack of precipitation is not causing a large amount of them to die, unlike other trees in the same
conditions.
640px-Sequoia_sempervirens_Big_Basin_Redwoods_State_Park_4