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Resource Number: 15829
Title: Defining Historic Hurricanes: Wind, Water & Tree Devastation
Description: Trees throughout the Southeast and South-Central United States have grown, spread, and reproduced under the disturbance pressures applied by hurricanes and associated weather events. Trees have been impacted in the short-term by damaging winds, fresh and sea water flooding, lightning, and soil anchorage issues. Over the long run, trees have been impacted by disturbance and successional patterns, and site resource issues from multiple storms changing reproduction / regeneration, climatic migration, site quality, and volume of ecologically viable space. Both maritime forests and Coastal Plain forest systems have been periodically damaged with so regularity, by hurricanes and associated tornadoes, heavy rain initiated flooding, and lightning. Native trees and forests within striking distance of hurricanes show growth adjustments, mortality patterns, and accumulated damage in response to the challenge of these large storms systems. Trees and forests visually and structurally represent the storm history of their sites.
Last Updated: June 29, 2022
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