Ask Joe Investigates: Underwater trees evidence of “mega drought”
The impacts of our western drought are hard to ignore. From devastating wildfires which threatened Lake Tahoe last summer to a shrinking shoreline at Lake Mead in Southern Nevada. And the dry months are turning into years. “Since October of 2019 we’re seven inches of rain short over three years,” said UNR Climatologist Stephanie McAfee. “It’s still a lot to be down.” But our current drought pales in comparison to what researchers discovered years ago in the dark depths of Fallen Leaf Lake, just a few miles from South Lake Tahoe. Scott Cassell with the Undersea Voyager Project came upon the sight from the driver’s seat of his submersible exploration vehicle: