The landscape holds many clues about what’s happening in the environment.
Slabs of bark shed from a tree suggest beetles feasted there, a graying tree may have red pine needles because it didn’t get enough water to survive the hot summer, and a chalky white material oozing along the trunk of a tree indicates it is infected with disease.
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