As ‘ghost forests’ multiply in Chesapeake Bay region, answers lag behind - The Southern Maryland Chronicle

As ‘ghost forests’ multiply in Chesapeake Bay region, answers lag behind - The Southern Maryland Chronicle

If the District of Columbia were nine times larger, it still wouldn’t equal the area of forests lost to saltwater intrusion along Maryland’s coasts in the past decade alone.Every July, when Heather Disque surveys the landscape from her state-issued Cessna, she documents thousands more acres of trees in death throes. It’s only a matter of a few years before they wither into desiccated husks and topple over, she said. By then, the ground itself li…

Residents are insecure because whole rows of trees are bald and covered with spiders, but the city remains calm.