Drought Killing Trees Across America

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Weather.com - 1/28/13, Judy Keen

A dry lake bed in June, 2012 in Terre Haute, Indiana is littered with dead fish. Our iWitness weather user writes, "Eagles, herons, and other wildlife dependent upon this lake, had to find food/habitat elsewhere this summer." iWitness weather use: mikeyg733

Hundreds of thousands of trees died in the historic drought of 2012, and many more will succumb in the next few years, scientists say.

"This is just beginning," says Janna Beckerman, a plant pathologist at Indiana's Purdue University. "I suspect we'll see trees still dying for the next two or three years."

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