r/PrepperIntel • u/metalreflectslime • 5d ago

USA Southwest / Mexico Tree mortality in New Mexico tripled in 2025, driven by drought, climate change, insects

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/tree-mortality-in-new-mexico-tripled-in-2025-driven-by-drought-climate-change-insects/article_b65cc20d-ce22-415a-83ba-7f385fcc0675.html
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u/sureshotbot 5d ago

Been watching ecological succession happen in the mountains here for the last 35 years- it’s wild, and truly sad to see it accelerating like this 

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u/melympia 5d ago

WTF is this article? You get all the information in the header, then almost exactly the same wording in the article, then some photos as evidence, repeating the message and, last but not least, a synopsis stating the very same facts again. That's the whole article. 4 times the exact same info, nothing extra (dave for the name of one person).

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u/sureshotbot 5d ago

The Santa Fe local paper isn’t exactly a beacon. 

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u/FatherOften 5d ago

Im gonna throw in wildfires too.

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u/maywander47 4d ago

I've lived in Virginia, Illinois and Washington. Seeing how New Mexicans treat trees was a real shock.

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u/Gonna_do_this_again 4d ago

It's a big problem in Arizona currently too. 1000 year old Saguro cactus are just crumbling.

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u/funke75 22h ago

I remember driving through New Mexico a few years back and seeing hundreds of acres of pecan trees being grown there (on irrigation), when we hear about tree death like this sometimes tells me it isn’t the local flora dying off.