All Climate Change Is Local: A Story of Tacoma Park's Trees With Author Mike Tidwell

All Climate Change Is Local: A Story of Tacoma Park's Trees With Author Mike Tidwell

In 2018, devastating rains hit Mike Tidwell’s community of Tacoma Park, Maryland, leading to a loss of tree canopy the following year unparalleled in the city’s history. After the torrential rainfall, Tidwell went on a kind of detective’s quest to find out what was killing the trees of Willow Avenue and elsewhere in Tacoma Park, and to try to connect the dots to climate change. “One theory is that the ground was soaked for so long that it trigge…

All Climate Change Is Local: A Story of Tacoma Park’s Trees With Author Mike Tidwell

In 2018, devastating rains hit Mike Tidwell's community of Tacoma Park, Maryland, leading to a loss of tree canopy the following year unparalleled in the city's history. After the torrential rainfall, Tidwell went on a kind of detective's quest to find out what was killing the trees of Willow Avenue and elsewhere in Tacoma Park, and to try to connect the dots to climate change. "One theory is that the ground was soaked for so long that it trigge…