HOUSTON—With the extreme drought conditions, trees are in trouble.
"As you look through here, you can see they’re distressed," Hal Underwood said as his work crews sprayed water on trees in Memorial Park.
"That’s not good from my perspective. These trees are on a ledge, and so they’re about to be pushed over," City Forester Victor Cordova said.
One went over the ledge Thursday morning in the Heights. It was so dried out, it was hollow in places.
"You have the potential, at least here regionally, to approach the effect on the trees that the Dust Bowl did during the 1930s. It’s a very severe drought and has the potential to have a worse impact on our urban forests than, say, Hurricane Ike," Barry Ward of Trees for Houston said.
That could mean the potential loss of millions and millions of trees, from Conroe to Galveston.
Trees for Houston is encouraging residents to water the trees around you, whether you own them or not.
Young trees are especially vulnerable – experts said the first two years for a tree are crucial.
