Trees are dying all over the valley due to the turf removal under mature trees required by Assembly Bill 356. More than 200 huge ash trees have died within 0.4 miles outside my neighborhood alone within a year’s time after the turf was removed and dozens more are dead and dying in my neighborhood right now.

During the Sept. 16 Clark County Commission meeting, John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, argued that every dead and dying tree in the valley is not a result of water conservation and that a significant portion are the result of climate change. I’m sorry, but blaming climate change for the thousands of trees all over the valley that just happened to die in the last 18 months when the turf under them was forcibly removed is ludicrous.

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