ZeroCool@feddit.ch to News@lemmy.world · 9 months agoWestern gray squirrels are now considered endangered in Washington state: "Seriously threatened with extinction"www.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down10cross-posted to: climate@slrpnk.net
arrow-up173arrow-down1external-linkWestern gray squirrels are now considered endangered in Washington state: "Seriously threatened with extinction"www.cbsnews.comZeroCool@feddit.ch to News@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square12fedilinkcross-posted to: climate@slrpnk.net
minus-squarepan_troglodytes@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agowe’ve got a fair share of pine trees but oak? havent seen an oak that someone didnt plant - isnt oak a midwest/east coast thing?
minus-squareLibertyLizard@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoThere is only one species native to WA I think but CA has around 20 or so. They generally prefer warmer and drier conditions than you’ve got.
minus-squarepan_troglodytes@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoah, that’d explain it - thanks!
minus-squarerab@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoWe have oak trees here in Victoria BC so I reckon it should be native in Washington too
we’ve got a fair share of pine trees but oak? havent seen an oak that someone didnt plant - isnt oak a midwest/east coast thing?
There is only one species native to WA I think but CA has around 20 or so. They generally prefer warmer and drier conditions than you’ve got.
ah, that’d explain it - thanks!
We have oak trees here in Victoria BC so I reckon it should be native in Washington too