After this week's Santa Ana winds, eucalyptus trees toppled more than any others. ABC10 News Reporter Moses Small spoke to an arborist to learn why so many of these trees are now on the ground.
SAN DIEGO — One of the dozen largest trees that fell during this week's Santa Ana winds was a pine tree, but the rest were all of the eucalyptus variety.
You can find these trees all around the county, and they've been in California since the late 1800s. They were planted by the thousands to build railroads. These trees ended up being too brittle to support trains. They're also not ideal for handling powerful wind. "Eucalyptus has a really dense, heavy wood. So you end up with a lot of weight up above the ground," said Lloyd Snapp, who works at an Escondido tree nursery."It can make it a little bit trickier for the roots to counterbalance that or hold that up when you get a lot of resistance from the wind.""When the ground gets saturated, it gets a lot softer," said Snapp."It makes it a little bit harder for the roots to hold their ground.
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