Skip to contentSign OutSign InSubscribeNewsletterContact UsSign OutSign In55°FClimate change is causing Western red cedar and Western hemlock trees to die off on Bainbridge Island. It’s just too hot and dry.Kirk Hanson, director of Forestry at Northwest Natural Resource Group, said that shade-tolerant and moisture-preferring trees are giving way to drought-tolerant trees from the south. A tree migration is taking place.In 2012, the US Department of Agriculture changed the hardiness zones chart, which shifted all the zones up and added zones 11-13. With these new planting guidelines,...…Skip to contentSign OutSign InSubscribeNewsletterContact UsSign OutSign In55°FClimate change is causing Western red cedar and Western hemlock trees to die off on Bainbridge Island. It’s just too hot and dry.Kirk Hanson, director of Forestry at Northwest Natural Resource Group, said that shade-tolerant and moisture-preferring trees are giving way to drought-tolerant trees from the south. A tree migration is taking place.In 2012, the US Department of Agriculture changed the hardiness zones chart, which shifted all the zones up and added zones 11-13. With these new planting guidelines,...WW…

Skip to contentSign OutSign InSubscribeNewsletterContact UsSign OutSign In54°FClimate change is causing Western red cedar and Western hemlock trees to die off on Bainbridge Island. It’s just too hot and dry.Kirk Hanson, director of Forestry at Northwest Natural Resource Group, said that shade-tolerant and moisture-preferring trees are giving way to drought-tolerant trees from the south. A tree migration is taking place.In 2012, the US Department of Agriculture changed the hardiness zones chart, which shifted all the zones up and added zones 11-13. With these new planting guidelines,...…Skip to contentSign OutSign InSubscribeNewsletterContact UsSign OutSign In54°FClimate change is causing Western red cedar and Western hemlock trees to die off on Bainbridge Island. It’s just too hot and dry.Kirk Hanson, director of Forestry at Northwest Natural Resource Group, said that shade-tolerant and moisture-preferring trees are giving way to drought-tolerant trees from the south. A tree migration is taking place.In 2012, the US Department of Agriculture changed the hardiness zones chart, which shifted all the zones up and added zones 11-13. With these new planting guidelines,...WW…