Photo taken on Jun 11, 2012
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Rising water dried up (ha-ha, water dried) a dense and high pine forest. I find something charming in these almost-dead forests… though I cannot explain why. By the way, the landscape will not last long: in few years the dead trees will fall down, decay and sink into moss carpet.

And here is some interesting physics: you can see on the photo that excessive humidity killed all trees higher than certain limit, while lower ones are still green. I suppose, that could be explained so: due to changed conditions roots can no more provide enough “pressure” to supply water to higher than N meters? And that means that it's physiological availability of water, not lack of nutrients and slow growth, that puts limits on height of pines on the bog?

I thought of this because it's hydrostatics that explained the overall limits of tree height (130 m).

species Scots pine Pinus sylvestris