May 12, 2005. This is more proof of the Alaskan Drought. The dried up areas are grass areas whereas the green areas are trees. The thing about this is the root systems for these trees is very shallow. Currently, as per this picture of yesterday, the drought has not reached the root systems of the Temperate Rain Forest. This is very much the way the picture from St. George's Island looked. Tundra is highly dependant upon Rain Forest conditons in that it needs chronic dampness and running water. Below any tundra area is highly saturated land. In many areas of this type of forest it is impossible to transit across it because there are more bogs than not. This is serious. These are going sizes of parched areas adding to the warming and carbon dioxide load and not less. The people in Alaska also need to assess where they are getting water supplies from as these aquafers are shallow. In addition, Bush can kiss his oil drilling dependant on ice roads good-bye because there is no moisture in large enough amounts to freeze besides the troposphere heating to prevent it anyway.