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My thought exactly.

Mead is currently at 1,055 Feet MSL- 174' below "full pool" and even with where it was this time in '23 ('24 = 1064 & '22 = 1044). This could be caused by several factors: users upstream taking more, Powell not releasing as much, less snowpack, and less local rain, but it's not an emergency. Yet

Didn’t they get rid of trees on the strip for the formula 1 track?? Glad we’re…. backtracking

www.youtube.com/shorts/fKJxf...

And no one ever saw this coming... Like back in the 60s ... Just no one.

We could all do with more trees, shrubs, and plants.

If only we could figure out what is causing it. 🤷‍♂️

People shouldn’t be living there or in any desert on this scale in the first place

At least it’s something

You're not wrong. I'm not certain why these places are so popular. -E

Oops, just noticed a typo! Underground in 50-60 degrees F Though here in the far north it does get into the high 40s in the winter (used to go spelunking)

Hello, People!!!!Plant more TREES.

Trees have always been a big part of the answer. Plant rows of them along the streets, plant parks in the cities. Most of all, plant forests where old industry stripped the land. Air under a canopy is much cooler, and that spreads to the surrounding area.

Solar pannels over the parking or that can be driven on?

As a tree hugger, all I can say to this is DUH

Meanwhile, Trump wants to log in our national parks, instead of getting lumber from Canada as usual.

As our hot deep Southern dumb as shit planning board allows builders to strip every tree 20 acres 40% concrete

Long term this will have positive effects too. And of course negative. Nothing comes without a price

Well, who-da-thunk it.

Houston is doing the opposite, cutting down trees to put up more empty concrete buildings.

You simply cannot plant them fast enough... mission critical.

Just make sure they are drought resistant varieties that can stand up to that wind! It's not treeless for nothing!

My insurance company forced us to remove the trees that were close to the house. Not trim, remove🙄

Ooo, not so fast! Check with POTUS. He knows better.

The world is fucked and we're sitting by and watching it burn. Governments and corporations couldn't give a shit. Here in South Australia climate change is all too real, we're seeing the collapse of our local marine ecosystems and prolonged drought into winter. 😔🔥

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trees in a desert? Where's the constant water supply to keep that myth alive?

BS

The slight problem with trees is they take several years after planting before they are able to do the job that you are referencing. Sea grass , which is regularly destroyed by marine traffic is even more efficient.

The plan needs to include regular watering

good thing they started early....

Duh?

Wow what a "no effing #$%@" moment

Tree planting won't work unless carbon emissions are actually curbed. Because at a certain higher temperature, trees will breathe out more CO2 than they use to photosynthesise. 'Offsetting' is a false solution, cutting emissions will work much better

Trump will shut down support for this

Less hardscape and more greenscape on rooftops sustain humidity longer, lowering temperatures. See Berlin project.

heres an even simpler one; blow up the factories that are producing the pollutants and throw the corporate bastards who own them into a concrete hole in the ground for the rest of their lives.

I hope they don’t use reclaimed water. It’s great for lawns but too much nitrogen.

That is why I love and enjoy watching the changing of trees. They provide beauty and oxygen for the earth.

Sure beats lawns!

Gee whiz, who’d a-thunk it? Trees casting shade? How creative!

Las Vegas is a monument to man's hubris and shouldnt exist, just a massive resource drain

Be sure to plant trees for the climate. Don't be like those zios planting foreign trees on stolen land only to result in devastating wildfires! Good luck!

They’re expensive.

I think Cincinnati is a Tree City also. I just remembered that. -E

Now all they need is water…

In a place that has few trees because it's DRY and they don't have enough water because of climate change. Good idea they cannot sustain.

What began as a get rich quick scheme for the organized crime turned into something completely unsustainable. That’s the American way 😉🤣

Duh!

surely that will help on top of the 50 luxury golf courses that require high water uses and maintenance 💀

I hope they have enough water to take care of enough trees to make a difference for the first 2-3 years at least.

Yeah it’s a commie faggot plot to make white men feel bad.

It will take a lot of trees to offset the 100 environmental regulations that Taco killed this year. Maybe a bell will ring when Mara Lardo is underwater.

Great idea, proven to work. The criminal wants to chop down trees for lumber no one wants. Will add to climate change, with the roll back on climate initiatives, regulations. A lot of lrg corps want the rollback but if Americans die who'll buy their product? Makes little sense IMO.

Yes—at first. Just like deforestation slowly dried out regions over decades, restoring rainfall through replanting takes time. But long-term studies show tree planting can cool the land, boost moisture, and even increase rain. It’s a slow fix—but it works.

What kind of storage barrel?

Do you live in the Vegas Area? I don't know of any cities using rain barrels but that doesn't mean there aren't any.

I def wouldn't discourage it, hope it works. It's just that, having lived in CO for a couple of decades I know water is a bigger looming crises than most people are aware of. Too bad more programs like this weren't started much earlier.

Most their water cones from Colorado and the Colorado run off and reservoirs are extremely strained already.

Okay, better late than never.

Duh !!

Love this for Vegas ❤️

🤦🏾‍♂️

Or pray to Trump.

Will work until the Colorado dries a bit more

Great idea but don't these trees need water which that entire region has had issues with in the last 30 years? Eventually the trees should support a more diverse and cooler ecosystem but at the cost of a significant amount of water this area is already lacking.

Yes they finely learned about environment and helping to rebuild the ecosystem

A solution that has been suggested for decades.

DUH. Here’s a novel idea, let’s just put the environment back as close as possible back to the way it was, you know, with trees and animals and bugs and stuff, just for a little while, just to see what happens. 🙄

ICYMI: youtu.be/Ya-1qxswcLI?...

Phoenix City Gov't A.) more trees ! B.) higher water bills ! I can't afford to water the trees in my yard, amount of water which kept them alive 10 years ago is no longer enough We've lost 8 trees in the past couple of years, looks like a couple more now failing Water rates have gone up again

restored wetlands for example. The plants, the microbes, and the natural filtering through porous cleans it and it ends up in an aquifer. Theyve had incentives to rip out lawns and use natural region appropriate shrubs and trees. They've also banned the installation of new residential pools etc.

Id argue it would be better to have our cities in deserts (with efforts to reclaim water, avoid waste etc) which are fed by rivers from verdant areas. instead of colonial practice of leveling forests and building right in the middle of the various resources that a city uses (and ends up exhausting)

There’s is a really weird racist undercurrent about trees in urban areas but then that would be #CRT

Trump’s solution to solving climate change heat waves is to send for more ICE. He’s a genius after all.

Does Las Vegas have enough water to keep them alive?

Duh

Wasn’t something kind of like this done in Israel when the country was established? I remember reading something about it in the 80’s

2023: "Critics balk as trees cut down in front of Bellagio to make way for F1 grandstands" thenevadaindependent.com/article/crit...

Lots of scum Republicans in Nevada and in Las Vegas. Trump wants to make the planet hotter and more polluted (NPR kowtows to this vile monster). "Trump proposed cutting the Northwest’s national forests. ..." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The article addresses your question

I wonder if they could employ the same techniques they are using in Africa to reclaim the desert. It has been very successful.

Not encouraging lawns is genius.

They need water, something that Las Vegas has to conserve.

runaway climate change

Haven't you heard we deny this reality.

Shouldn't be necessary, but a friendly reminder, plants don't crave Brawndo.

Gosh, it's about time to get with the tree-planting programs. Shade, oxygen, CO2 absorption and more. Trees need to be replenished everywhere, but including in cityscape plans is a must moving forward.

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Who's going to water them in the desert? Depleting ground water is *not* a good solution

Exactly!

Phoenix, too, except roasting hellfire hot May through October 👍

I’ve been shouting this for years. What good is a palm tree? No shade, needs lots of water, and if a cat goes up, you need a 50 foot ladder to get them down. Scorpions love them, swimming pool hate them, and they’re expensive to trim every year. Give us Mesquites, PaloVerdes, and Aleppo Pines! 🌳

Meanwhile, everyone wonders whatever happened to Katie Johnson? She simply vanished before she could testify against the man who raped her when she was a tween.

Solar panels provide shade too, and shelter over parking lots.

It made plenty of sense to the Mafia (and Del Webb developers). 😉

Bellagio's fountains are fed by an onsite spring that is too salty and not clean enough for human consumption. It used to be used to water a golf course, and now the Fountains use 2/3 less water than the course did.

Vegas needs some permaculture, but most news organizations won't even cover that term & yet Davis, CA is a permaculture town and it is working to help all