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Mette Lampcov is a freelance documentary photographer from Denmark, who is based in Los Angeles, California.She studied fine art in London, England and after moving to the United States 15 years ago, studied photography and journalism at...
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As the sky turns pink on a hot summer’s evening in the San Joaquin valley, a woman is trimming and picking onions. Onion picking is considered some of the hardest work done in the fields of California. One saying goes “the onions are treated better then the people picking them.” Workers are hired by subcontractors who pay as little as possible. The workers are paid $1.30 for each sack of onions filled and it is estimated that if you they work very fast they will make minimum wages. Three rocks- el Porviner united states
Jennifer a mum of three small children, is drying off her three-month-year-old baby, after giving him a bath in Three Rocks, in the San Joaquin valley, california. The water she just bathed her son in is contaminated.
The contamination is partly due to agricultural waste in the california aqueduct and a chemical reaction with disinfectants put in the water and very poor local water storage.
As she is drying her son, she talks about how the water smells bad and tastes awful. Three Rocks -el porviner united states
Since 2014 the Sierra Nevadas has seen unprecedented levels of tree mortality with as many as 149 million trees across 8.9 million acres lost. Where once stood a lush, green forest, there are now trees turning yellow and brown. The alarmingly accelerated pace of their death has been linked to the stress caused by climate change, more specifically increased temperatures, years of severe drought, and an unhealthy overgrowth due to years of fire suppression, which led to a significant spike in bark beetle infestations. Shaver Lkae
Since 2014 the Sierra Nevadas has seen unprecedented levels of tree mortality with as many as 149 million trees across 8.9 million acres lost. Where once stood a lush, green forest, there are now trees turning yellow and brown. The alarmingly accelerated pace of their death has been linked to the stress caused by climate change, more specifically increased temperatures, years of severe drought, and an unhealthy overgrowth due to years of fire suppression, which led to a significant spike in bark beetle infestations. Shaver Lkae
Since 2014 the Sierra Nevadas has seen unprecedented levels of tree mortality with as many as 149 million trees across 8.9 million acres lost. Where once stood a lush, green forest, there are now trees turning yellow and brown. The alarmingly accelerated pace of their death has been linked to the stress caused by climate change, more specifically increased temperatures, years of severe drought, and an unhealthy overgrowth due to years of fire suppression, which led to a significant spike in bark beetle infestations. Shaver Lkae
Since 2014 the Sierra Nevadas has seen unprecedented levels of tree mortality with as many as 149 million trees across 8.9 million acres lost. Where once stood a lush, green forest, there are now trees turning yellow and brown. The alarmingly accelerated pace of their death has been linked to the stress caused by climate change, more specifically increased temperatures, years of severe drought, and an unhealthy overgrowth due to years of fire suppression, which led to a significant spike in bark beetle infestations. Shaver Lkae
Since 2014 the Sierra Nevadas has seen unprecedented levels of tree mortality with as many as 149 million trees across 8.9 million acres lost. Where once stood a lush, green forest, there are now trees turning yellow and brown. The alarmingly accelerated pace of their death has been linked to the stress caused by climate change, more specifically increased temperatures, years of severe drought, and an unhealthy overgrowth due to years of fire suppression, which led to a significant spike in bark beetle infestations. Shaver Lkae
Since 2014 the Sierra Nevadas has seen unprecedented levels of tree mortality with as many as 149 million trees across 8.9 million acres lost. Where once stood a lush, green forest, there are now trees turning yellow and brown. The alarmingly accelerated pace of their death has been linked to the stress caused by climate change, more specifically increased temperatures, years of severe drought, and an unhealthy overgrowth due to years of fire suppression, which led to a significant spike in bark beetle infestations. Shaver Lkae
Since 2014 the Sierra Nevadas has seen unprecedented levels of tree mortality with as many as 149 million trees across 8.9 million acres lost. Where once stood a lush, green forest, there are now trees turning yellow and brown. The alarmingly accelerated pace of their death has been linked to the stress caused by climate change, more specifically increased temperatures, years of severe drought, and an unhealthy overgrowth due to years of fire suppression, which led to a significant spike in bark beetle infestations. Shaver Lkae
Since 2014 the Sierra Nevadas has seen unprecedented levels of tree mortality with as many as 149 million trees across 8.9 million acres lost. Where once stood a lush, green forest, there are now trees turning yellow and brown. The alarmingly accelerated pace of their death has been linked to the stress caused by climate change, more specifically increased temperatures, years of severe drought, and an unhealthy overgrowth due to years of fire suppression, which led to a significant spike in bark beetle infestations. Shaver Lkae
Since 2014 the Sierra Nevadas has seen unprecedented levels of tree mortality with as many as 149 million trees across 8.9 million acres lost. Where once stood a lush, green forest, there are now trees turning yellow and brown. The alarmingly accelerated pace of their death has been linked to the stress caused by climate change, more specifically increased temperatures, years of severe drought, and an unhealthy overgrowth due to years of fire suppression, which led to a significant spike in bark beetle infestations. Shaver Lkae
A park ranger stands in front of [Giant Grove] Museum giving an educational talk to park visitors including showing and explaining to people how wildfires and tree morality are affecting the forest due to climate change.
A ridge of Sequioa national forest where the castle fires passed through at high severity.
The Castle fires / SQF complex burnt 174,178 acres and its estimated that 8000-10,000 monarchs died in the fires - at the time this was shocking news to all the scientist working with sequoias, this was the worst case scenario and the unimaginable.
A Sequioa seedling, most probably grown after the Castle fires from cones released.[ more info on seedlings, cones and fire]
The Castle fires / SQF complex burnt 174,178 acres and its estimated that 8000-10,000 monarchs died in the fires - at the time this was shocking news to all the scientist working with sequoias, this was the worst case scenario and the unimaginable.
What remains of 2 dead Sequoias in Alder Creek, Sequioa National Forest. The trees have had their limbs cut off, as they are as large as normal tress.
The Castle fires / SQF complex burnt 174,178 acres and its estimated that 8000-10,000 monarchs died in the fires - at the time this was shocking news to all the scientist working with sequoias, this was the worst case scenario and the unimaginable.
Christy Bingham Kristen Shiver and a team of fire safety experts hike in to the Redwood canyon area for the first time, to asses damage - This area was shown to have high severity fire
( high severity means more tree will die)
Land managers in the Southern Sierra Nevada are reckoning with the effects of large wildfires including the KNP Complex, which burned mostly within Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, and the Windy Fire, which burned mostly on the Sequoia National Forest. Findings from a recently compiled fire response plan estimate that across the footprints of the two fires, between 2,261 and 3,637 large giant sequoias (four feet or more in diameter) have either already been killed by fire or have been so severely burned that they are expected to die within the next three to five years. These losses make up approximately 3-5% of the world’s population of large giant sequoias.
Christy Bingham, Kristen Shiver stops to look at the crown of a Sequioa to asses what kind of damage there is
Land managers in the Southern Sierra Nevada are reckoning with the effects of large wildfires including the KNP Complex, which burned mostly within Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, and the Windy Fire, which burned mostly on the Sequoia National Forest. Findings from a recently compiled fire response plan estimate that across the footprints of the two fires, between 2,261 and 3,637 large giant sequoias (four feet or more in diameter) have either already been killed by fire or have been so severely burned that they are expected to die within the next three to five years. These losses make up approximately 3-5% of the world’s population of large giant sequoias.
Andrew Creamers is removing the protective foil that had been put around the base of General Sherman to protect it, In the end the fire never came close enough for there to be any damage to the tree.
General Sherman is the world largest tree standing at 275 feet tall 36 feet around at the base
( I need to get the right name for this )
While hiking in the Redwood canyon area Ana Tobio found a fallen Sequioa branch, pealing back the tough bark to reveal evidence of bark beetles. It is new to see bark beetles in Sequioa and adds to concerns about a forest that is already in stress from drought and wildfires.
The beetles burrow through the bark and lay their eggs between the bark and the cambium where the larvae hatch,creating beautiful but damaging pattens that weaken the tree.
There is still some controversy over bark beetles attacking sequoias and consequently killing them -
Kristen will have been park of this - Land managers in the Southern Sierra Nevada are reckoning with the effects of large wildfires including the KNP Complex, which burned mostly within Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, and the Windy Fire, which burned mostly on the Sequoia National Forest. Findings from a recently compiled fire response plan estimate that across the footprints of the two fires, between 2,261 and 3,637 large giant sequoias (four feet or more in diameter) have either already been killed by fire or have been so severely burned that they are expected to die within the next three to five years. These losses make up approximately 3-5% of the world’s population of large giant sequoias.
Fire fighters are setting up watering to try help a giant Sequioa survive fire damage, after a fire went through the night before. ( I believe in the past 2 years this is the first time they are doing this - trying to give the trees water )
KNP Complex fire at 88,307 Acres as of 18Nov 75 % contained
Visitors walking into the newly formed lake at Badwater basin at sunset.
The lake formed after Hurricane Hilary dropped a years worth of precipitation in a single day in August, just one month after the park had seen recored temperatures in july. Death Valley. CA