Citations:treemageddon

English citations of treemageddon and Treemageddon

Noun: "(informal) the mass death or destruction of trees; a disaster caused by or involving trees"

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• 2010, David Pogue, "A Tech-Filled Life, Without Power", The New York Times, 18 March 2010:

  As a result of Treemageddon, the power lines all over the tri-state area are a tangled mess.

• 2013, Clive Potter, "Saving Britain’s Trees: Countering the growing threat from invasive pests and diseases", ECOS, Volume 34, Issue 2 (2013), page 25:

  Amidst talk of an impending ‘treemageddon’, it began to dawn that Chalara could be an environmental disaster with just as great an impact.

• 2014, Erin Sherbert, "Tree Activists Warn of “Treemageddon”", San Fransisco Weekly, 14 November 2014:

  “Nobody wants San Francisco to suffer some kind of 'Treemageddon,'” Flanagan says.

• 2015, Danny Harrison, "Residents express dissatisfaction with 'Treemageddon' mitigation", Fayette County News, 9 April 2015:

  “Treemageddon” is what Fayetteville Mayor Greg Clifton calls what developers have done to the tract of land located between Knight Way and Weatherly Drive along Hwy.

• 2016, Linda Weiford, "‘Treemageddon’ storm shifts to Arbor Day", WSU News (Washington State University), 25 April 2016:

  Because downed trees, especially taller ones, were major contributors to the storm’s damage, “I think a lot of people tend to view it as a tree event instead of a wind event, a sort of ‘treemageddon,’” said McConnell.

• 2016, Lynda V. Mapes, "From mountain forests to city parks, trees are stressed and dying", The Seattle Times, 6 August 2016:

  Implicated in the unfolding treemageddon is the drought of 2015.

• 2017, Bob Hart, "Director's Corner", The Artifact (Lane County Historical Museum), Winter 2017, page 1:

  Our building survived the mid-December ice storm without damage despite the ‘Treemageddon’ that occurred nearby.