Dead Trees Could Bring New Life to Southeast Alaska Lumber Mills

By Molly Tankersley | Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center on Dec 31, 2019   Featured, Southeast Alaska, State  

  JUNEAU – As climate change rapidly alters conditions in southeast Alaska, lower snowpack levels have caused a massive decline of yellow-cedar trees. Without an insulating blanket of snow, the shallow roots of yellow-cedar trees freeze during late spring cold snaps. Left behind is a growing expanse of “ghost forests” of dead yellow-cedars, affecting roughly […]