Cody'sLab - 2020-04-21
Considering how many times I used words you-tube doesn't like such as: Die, kill, dead, ect. I'm not even going to attempt to monetize this video. Link to mars bunker video: https://youtu.be/F_z4I8Vbqfg
Looks a lot like drought stress, probably as the climate warms there is less snow melt in spring to water the trees. You could maybe try mulching around the trees with compost or organic matter. This would retain the moisture and keep the grass at bay. Also as it breaks down it would feed the trees. Also swales on contour should work well as this would catch any run off and allow it to slowly soak into the ground instead of flowing down the valley.
use a BCS with rotary plow... pretty easy
That's sad. I have seen a lot of environment change during my time, and I'm not that old! The rate is quite fast. I was thinking, maybe you can introduce other types of trees to your land that could thrive in the new climate?
@John Peric show me your lawn lmao... I am quite proud of myself having created an incredible bounty... actual ability to feed myself and others in a sustainable way... systems which work all over the world. they support humans so humans can support the environment... you would rather just not consider your implicit damage by failing to control your environment and reduce your impact on the planet.
@John Peric You keep claiming they've adapted to the environment but its simply a false argument. Man controls the environment, and that species may or may not be able to subsist in the environment due to mans impact, climate changes, or new species. They are therefore not resilient to change. Their scope will dwindle till they find a niche or die out, or mutate/breed into something better
@John Peric to anyone reading this, if you get passed the latent nationalism in what this guys saying, know that just about every nursery and plant dealer (people who love plants) disagrees with him as well. As well as a great many mammals, birds, insects, and reptiles who are well adapted to larger varieties of plants.
The failure of man to appreciate or manage his landscape is what this guy has a problem with, and I could be wrong but I doubt he has done anything to improve it.... (happy to be wrong)
@Raymond Flagstaff
My dude, I don't have a lawn, I would rather not, though if I ever get a home with a lawn I'm exclusively planting native trees, shrubs, and grasses, and treating them as they naturally would be.
You aren't helping the environment by controlling it, you are an invasive species and you should seek to reduce your control as much as possible. Increasing control does not reduce your impact, it makes you the soul driver of change, alteration, and the resulting destruction.
@Raymond Flagstaff
They have though, junipers evinced for millions of years in that region, adapting to temperatures swinging 10-15°C, their lands flooding, fires burning through, droughts, etc. They evolved to be able to adapt and shift with such changes.
“Many of these trees were my friends”
~Cody, during quarantine
this is truly a sad video :(
Treebeard?
Pequeninos
Shortage of Ladybugs because of human activity (Insecticides/climate change)
Buy a few mesh bags full of Ladybugs and release em in the area. They'll destroy massive amounts of Needle Scale.
@Raymond Flagstaff maybe in that area it's not as big an issue.
@B B possibly biomass related
Even i had noticed this in my 30 years. At my parents house, where I grew up, there would be lady bugs of multiple kinds allover during summer. In the last few years, I've yet to see a single one.
I've also noticed decrease of bugs, butterflies, bees and bumblebees in general. And it's not like a fluke year. It's getting worse for every year.. at least what I can tell myself..
@Madcatlover even if you had a moon size ice cube, all that would do would increase the level
@WCGwkf pour a ton of liquid oxygen into the ocean
Cody's not a mad scientist, he's a Sad Scientist working for teamtrees
Its me. Yes, he will change for sure. Its the choice of Steins Gate after all.
El Psy Congroo
@AxxL One day you will look back in disapointment. 100%
@AxxL your drunk, stay home.
worse
yes
If everyone was as concerned as Cody, the world would be different
@Sol Chapeau Making a nuclear reactor isn't that hard, only very dangerous of you blowing up a big portion of your city and killing a lot of people with cancer
@Sol Chapeau Also making a nuclear bomb isn't that hard, you'd need to spend a lot of money buying the components, but you can make one.
make a difference
@Kalkinzin Sun Praiser Hes in Nevada. 50 miles from alot of nuclear experiments 😆
@Maverick Buckley @sun hat edited it's comment didn't it ?
The co2 released by those trees dying on a large scale, feels like a feedback loop similar to the permafrost melting
I mean... kind of... but that assumes that warming and CO2 are the sole, or at least largest cause of this.
Really drying of the environment and the suppressing wild fires certainly has more to do with this (though warming certainly plays a role).
not really - as permafrost return CO2, which was trapped seberal hundreds years ago, while trees dying off return CO2 which was trapped in 100 years, it is still sad - only me being nervous about my master exam from ecology keeps sprouting these things
plenty of the carbon gets stuck in the soil, after all, the dead trees arent burning.
You can hear the sadness in his voice, damn Cody you made me sad too.
Something about his tone in this video is kinda chilling. “This one’s not as bad as some of the others, but I think its only a matter of time before it is.” Ominous.
id recommend digging a well anyways. having a steady supply of water out there would be a good idea and depending on how well the well does it could replicate water recovery
on mars.
Not going to lie, this hurt. Seeing how much pain Cody was in over these trees makes me wish that people would pay more attention to their environment
The trees will survive in colder environments creating a new opportunity for different life in the environment that was once dominated by the Pine and Juniper trees. Life goes on.
Ty Vm yea, life goes on, but there is no reason to write it off that way. As you say, trees in colder climates will survive, though this is true, you must think if the problem continues to grow, if the climate continues getting warmer, eventually all colder climate trees will die. Not only that, but warm climate trees will too. They will end up growing in areas that are even too hot for them. Then maybe they start migrating north to the “colder” climates” until they die and the world is not much but desert. Granted that will (hooefully) take hundreds of thousands of years, and hopefully this problem is actually dealt with, but as of right now, we are literally seeing the potential results of climate change getting warmer.
Additionally, if colder climate trees die, it will take hundreds of years for a substantial amount of warmer climate trees to even reach this area, assuming they even will. You heard Cody, he said there is a tree that is potentially over 200 years old. Dead. It took 200 years for that tree to grow. Any wild life, like the bees, will probably die before the new trees come in, then we have the issue where southern wildlife starts heading north too. Then we get invasive species that kill off more plant, animals, etc. and we have larger problems on our hands than just saying “eh, the trees die, new ones come in”.
I don’t mean to scare anyone, this is just a hypothetical thought of what may happen. This would happen over hundreds of years, but eventually it could happen. Can it be stopped? Most likely. Will it be stopped? Hopefully. Is it a big problem? Yes.
@Nolan's Projects 200 years is a blink of an eye. The climate has changed in the past as it will change in the future. We're pretty ingenuitive creatures, we'll figure it out.
@Nolan's Projects Learn how the climate and the organisms work.
Hot doesn't translate to desert. Although this isn't necessarily true for the west, but on a global scale a hotter climate is a wetter one, while a cooler climate is drier one.
You don't need to head north, you can head up, plants and animals shifting 100 feet further up in elevation can do more than shifting 100 miles further North in elevation.
The trees native to hotter climate will shift northwards and upward.
The main issue is drying of the climate (and undoubtedly a decline in fires) these parasites feed off the water and nutrients in the plant, and without water to sustain the plant and fires to control pest populations, tree populations, and nutrient levels in the soil, the trees begin to struggle.
Most of these older trees started growing during one of the wettest points in the past 1,000 years (1800s to early 1900s), that's why there's so many of these old ones (and also because fire suppression has allowed for old ones to live longer). Currently our precipitation is back closer to the average (maybe a little below average) fro the past 1000 years.
The reason you see these trees growing at a certain elevation isn't because of the temperature (for the most part) it's because of the precipitation, decrease precipitation and the tree line shifts upward, increase it and it shifts downward.
@Ty Vm just like the massive salt lakes with no life at all? (Vegetation)
I've gotta say, this series feels like a perfect intro to a found-footage horror movie.
Yes, climate change is exactly that.
Should be monetized. We need to be able to talk about death in a meaningful way. What trees are you going to replace these with? What trees do well in a hotter climate?
it will take tens to hundreds of millions of years for the level of biodiversity that existed on earth before humans returns, this is a mass extinction event
@Brian -
Is that a question or a statement in a question form?
@BACHOMP
An invasive species is an introduced organism that negatively alters its new environment. Although their spread can have beneficial aspects, invasive species adversely affect the invaded habitats and bioregions, causing ecological, environmental, and/or economic damage.
And there's a difference between artificially introducing an invasive species, and letting it occur on it's own as it naturally would.
And the environment isn't going to die, you dunce, it evolved millions of years to survive this area, can you not comprehend that Cody's home used to be two hundred feet under water 15,000 years ago?
You yourself said life will adapt either way, only difference is in one case you'll certainly destroy an ecosystem permanently driving dozens of species to extinction and destroying a unique ecosystem in the process versus leaving it alone and letting it shift naturally.
Nature doesn't need your help, idiots that think like you are why we have so many environmental problems to begin with.
There's no need for change, that's the great basin, and almost no one lives there, and planting an invasive species in the wills would benefit no one and nothing.
Change for the sake of change and growth for the sake of growth is cancer.
eucalypts only Australian trees do well in weather like that but of course they’re not native and if you get a year of good rain they’ll be everywhere
@Brian - it's caused by "activists" starting fires out west.. there is ton of evidence showing most of these fires are arson
I've also heard that with warming temperatures, the bugs have longer to breed and feed. This is stressing the trees beyond what they've been historically used to.
This is why the south has so many bugs, extremely mild winters (usually 40*F on average through the coldest, occasionally dipping down to freezing) and very long summer temperatures let the insects thrive for a good 80% of the year. trees in the south get around this buy being able to produce pollen in extreme levels. the average pollen level in the spring time near my house in GA, is 8k. the average in my mothers area (Michigan) is 80. so the trees are able to pollinate and replenish very rapidly negating any infestation. except kudzu. that stuff seems to be killing our trees faster than they can repopulate, and it's invasive. the government brought it hear to help with erosion, ended up killing a lot of trees.
I can’t wait until we finally get to see three foot/meter wingspans in dragonflies, just like in the early millenia
@some dude we need oxygen for that tho.
Furry
@jens jensen yeah, and?
Drill a well sounds like such an interesting project though
You've got a lovely area there, with beautiful snow-capped mountains. It's a shame you may be without trees before too long : (
This isn't just happening in Nevada. I've been through lots of areas throughout eastern Oregon and parts of Idaho where it is affecting much larger pine trees, on a huge scale.
Thank you for drawing awareness to this Cody, this is absolutely tragic
It's official, the tress are having their own version of Covid-19
i would love to see you go through the testing, i can imagine a test with planting new trees as well. maybe 2 with fertilizer, 2 thats getting water, 2 untouched etc. and have the trees in relatively equal spots. i would try to contact neighboring land owners and heck maybe even the closest farms and house owners nearby. tho it seems to not be many too close.
Cheap, easy and effective would lead me to try a back to eden esque just cover the tree base in super deep mulch and pray it makes enough of a difference in water retention.
In the Sahel, North Africa, farmers have learned to build networks of short run drystone walls in crescent shapes with mouths facing uphill. Water runoff is captured with silt then collecting in the 'bowl' of the crescent where it holds moisture for an entire growing season. I think by adapting this solution to build crescents around your trees, facing uphill, to capture both silt and water, utilizing the native rocks on the hillside may tip the balance back in favour of the trees and the general biological environment?
@Alexandra Crawford That is an awesome idea. Definitely something worth trying.
he is gone need some hands to do that for all his trees.
@Alexandra Crawford Those are called swales, and they're a bit overrated, but they can work in specific circumstances.
Find some trees doing well at lower elevations. They may have a slight adaptation that makes them more tolerant to warmer areas. You could then germinate seeds from those trees and plant them out to build a stock of warmer climate tolerant trees.
@Cody Crucial Drier conditions (which make for weakened trees unable to defend themselves) also play a big role.
I suggest including local soil with the possibility of including local soil mycoculture with these sturdy seedlings and transferring them to Chicken Hole Base land, comparing them to meristem cultures of a single strong tree and growing these cultured saplings in CHB soil supplemented with Paul Stammets commercial soil mycoculture. This derived comparison data will be a win-win either way for Cody and his neighbors to respond proactively to climate change. How dense must tree growth be to establish a local micro climate and a stable hillside water table with run-off to feed valley properties with clean water all year round? What livestock and food can then be raised in the valley? If we think together we can live together, for real.
Or they have a higher tolerance to drier conditions...
@Evan artifical selection isn't a good thing to do, it may help the population now, but down the line, it can hurt drier ecosystems if the climate returns to a wet phase like it was during the 1800s to early 1900s.
@Cody Crucial Of course it occurs, it just occurs to a lesser extent.
Someone always ends his videos with: "At the edge of extinction only loves remains" and I feel it rings more and more true
A "Youtube friendly" title:
All My Trees are not Staying Alive Well
it's sad to see the algorithm that Youtube uses be like this...
they should just allow certain channels exemptions from these rules
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Does anyone know what happened to his Gf/wife?
Survivably Challenged Planties 🦄 🌈 🌈
Lau Fiu they ended up breaking up about a year ago I think. Sort of right before chicken hole base started. I don’t remember much else, but cody did make a video about it.
@Fink Ployd Humans work? Gosh I thought the only one who still did that willingly was Cody!
@Michael Green uh, what
Cody. I was wondering if there's any native predators of the scale bugs.
If yes then you could have a better answer than using chemicals.
Ladybugs. Unfortunately, you can't make them stay in the area. They just go wherever they want to go.
In today's episode of "Treeskeeper: Arbored Grudges" we join Forensic Arboriculturist Cody Reeder as he investigates a brutal string of mass Arborcide.
Nicely done.
I’ve been watching an arborist here on YouTube for years his channel is called Arborist Blair Glen he’s based out of California and he really knows his stuff and he cares greatly for trees. I don’t know how you could get ahold of him but he might be willing to give you his opinion.
@Ali Najm Cody should make this a real-life version of those KSP youtuber collabs!
If you comment on his youtube channel he responds pretty quickly, and you can also email him through his main website.
The problem you have has a solution. You need to out soil down, like biochar, plant some flowering plants to attract parasitic wasps, had leaf miners nearly take out my trees, then the wasps came and completely decimated the leaf miners within a week of planting some flowers
Not Human love those wasps. They reduce so much work in the garden regarding pest control. Unfortunately i haven't seen them in a couple years.
fungal network
Another hypothesis, increased temperature could mean more reproductive cycles per season for scale bugs or other pests.
That's exactly it. Colder temperatures slow the life cycle.
@Buckhorn Cortez depends on the bug. Not all insects breed once per year. I deal with invasive stinkbugs that have more reproductive cycles in our climate than China where they came from. I am not familiar with scale bugs to know.
Buckhorn Cortez that not true for all bugs for sure. Think about flies and mosquitos that only live a few days-weeks. I’ve raised fruit flies for my frogs and I get a new life cycle every week or so. I’ve also done experiments in college on cold and heat related life cycles so..
@Brad Robbins Okay, but the video is covering the scale bugs, not stink bugs.
Scale bugs are the problem in the video.
Also, all you guys are assuming that the bugs are the sole issue.
@John Peric that is why I said it was a hypothesis. And on another comment I also said I don't know scale bugs enough to know.
It is simply an idea to investigate or to bring in people who are more familiar with those particular pests.
And of course there could be other issues as well, Cody mentioned that there could be drought stress. And I mentioned that there could be other pests unseen.
I live in colorado and I've noticed this happen to various species throughout the state. I've seen mixed forest with all of the douglas firs dying. I've seen it with pinyons. I've seen it with ponderosa too.
The douglas firs and ponderosas were dying due to bark beetles infesting western forest. These made it difficult for trees to transport nutrients between the leaves and roots, killing the trees.
Thankfully this infestation ended as quickly as it began, and forest are beginning to recover all across the west (though we got a small spike in infestations in the past couple of years).
Now, I'm not sure what could've caused the bark beetle infestation, because it just seems so random, it had no correlation with much of anything, maybe it was a result of the large drought in the west for the past couple of decades.
I can definitely say the pinyon and junipers are suffering due to decreased precipitation.
the temperature increase also greatly increases the amount, activity and size of insects. right here we are getting more and more musqitos every year, and they are around all year now
"Gardening with less water" by David A. Bainbridge, I swear by it, not at it.
Please go discuss it with Nevada’s division of natural resources. Either they’re aware of the issue and can give you insight or they would be glad you brought it to their attention.
@hell0turdle I think the snowflake part is to link everything to Trump, I personally don't like the guy but I wouldn't blame him for everything
@Walter Bishop the overlap of people that care enough about natural resources to work in that field and also support Tr*mp are exceedingly small. Most of us do not and thoroughly appreciate reports of stuff like this.
@RankedZero He appointed a climate change denier as the head of the EPA. I'm not going to pretend everything is Trump's fault, but damn if he isn't a clean cut representation with everything that is wrong with the country
@Bob Bobbertson You'd be hard pressed to live in a society governed by politics and not find something not affected by politics. As for the climate change thing? I won't even bother arguing it, there is so much evidence piled up over so many years that anyone trying to deny it at this point is at best ignorant. I don't intend to criticise you personally, but it really is worth doing research in to legitimate peer-reviewed studies and data collection.
Fenris Waffles trump is a just symptom of a larger problem. Which is not going to be solved by electing joe Biden
I feel for you man! All the effort and love, trying to bring back sustainability and you get flogged by a bug/ situation that was most likely created by some ignorant fools elsewhere.
Same old story right?
Hey Cody, over here in Aus we are getting smashed by pests at the moment, after the drought and fires in struggling to control fruit fly, aphids, mealy bugs, ants, mosquitos and more, it might be more than just a local thing
It’s rare that I’ve seen Cody look genuinely concerned about something, I wish more people cared about this stuff like he does
Man to see this makes me love Cody even more... that man cares for life. I had a tear of awe when he talked about them dying.
You can tell he’s genuinely hurt by this, that’s why he’s one of my favs
he fake it for views
@JBroMCMXCI I think that's pretty unlikely, not only because I don't think Cody would do that, but also because he didn't monetize the video. Money is a surprisingly good indicator of alterior motives.
I am hurt by this and have no attachment, just knowing it happening vs assuming it's happening is very sad. Can only imagine how it would be seeing it happening and being unable to reverse it.
Poor guy.
The climate has been changing for millions of years. The fauna and flora will adapt, or die, just like it has for millions of years.
Can you post some stills of the infected needles? The YT compression algorithm has a real hard time with those close up shots.
You should low key make some charcoal for the indoor plants with the dead trees
Would be amazing to see update on these trees; one year passed, where's the tree line now?
Cody, have you thought of the chemicals they drop all over the ground over there for the fires impacting the growth? Or what they're even dropping?
chemtrails aren't even a theory anymore
I wish people around me cared about tress as much as Cody does.
Yea so you could all kiss and cuddle toguether while watching all the weinner
I actively destroy trees to help bring down capitalism, comrade. American suburbs are the true enemy. Suburban capitalist rat pig dogs live like forest elves. Can't see the glorious sky for all the disgusting trees the man uses to oppress us. Capitalist pig dog trees oppress all of the smaller plants by hording all the sunlight for themselves and spreading their roots far and deep to monopolize the nutrients. They should be shot in the back of their tree heads for this crime.
There was a massive beautiful pine in my neighborhood but they cut it down ):
I wish people knew about abrupt climate change!
Chillicothe is what happens when someone wants to be a communist but is too lazy to read theory
Reminds me of a video by Thunderf00t when he talked about the forest fire, I think it was around the time of the eclipse
he drove around the US and shown all the dead/dying trees along side the roads
I think it would be interesting to setup a camera on that mountain to take daily or weekly pictures of that area to see how fast the issue spreads.
For scale bugs make an oil preparation that suffocates them by mixing four tablespoons of dishwashing liquid into one cup of vegetable oil. Mix one part of that mixture to about twenty parts of water, put it in your sprayer and spray the affected trees
Considering what others have been saying about secondary disturbance agents, it would be cool to see you use parasitic wasps to quell the issue to a fault.
Ask “Crime pays but botany doesn’t “ he seems pretty knowledgeable
I heard that charcoal retains water to some extent and it's probably cheaper to make than to buy vermiculite. What if you mix some into the soil around the trees with a bit of heaped ground to make a tiny dam for each tree? Or just dig tiny dams for each tree? Or at least for some of the trees? It'd be cool if the fallen trees can save the living ones in this way, if possible.
Love that guy
Plus hes also familiar w geology so cody and he could do more looking into it
He'd be the perfect person to ask!
His channel name is the best
This the most depressing stuff I’m glad you made this video. I always cared about trees but I’ve never been this genuinely sad at seeing them like this :/
I'm so sorry Cody, this is very sad, hopefully you'll best the causation for all of this. I believe in you, I know you can :)
Asbjørn - 2020-04-21
Cody: "See all the little spots.."
Youtube Compression: "What spots?"
Tommy M - 2020-04-23
i saw the spots?
Arved Ludwig - 2020-12-27
Honestly the video compression is a joke. There's a public media station in my country that uploads to YouTube as well as their own website. Both are being uploaded in 720p but the difference between their quality and YouTube's quality is ridiculous.
Asbjørn - 2020-12-27
@Arved Ludwig yep. YT compression is very lossy. Google does not space a single byte of bandwidth or storage.. And I can't say that i blame them, with the amount of data YT is throwing around.
Hua Fan - 2021-01-01
@Asbjørn p
americanhindi - 2021-01-14
Made in China/PRC camera