in red next we looked at an area where the drought stress was more acute so this is from los padres national forest this is what it looks like when you fly over gray green looks like your typical southern cal forest. this is what it looks like in chemical detail those trees are doing ok but everything else that is showing severe drought stress and that's showing here in red now that we have the view from above we decided to head out for a boots on the ground perspective i'm standing here in the middle of los padres national forest and as you could tell from all the dead trees behind me there's plenty of evidence of the impact of a multi-year drought one of the biggest problems here a bug that attacks water stressed pine trees. and now we're talkin hours a bunch of tom coleman is an entomologist with the u.s. forest service a lot of dead trees right here yeah this is a nice will active spot for you to. barbados kill more trees than any other kind of insect or disease in north america when you just look across the landscape and you see this kind of patchwork of dead trees mortality is quite dramatic