Don this year so far been wetter then normal and cooler.I have yet to see anything offical about the projection but the Taku, Chenga and Hubert Glaciers are all moving forward. With cooler summer less melting. Junea Ice field been holding stead but the Mendanhall receding. Once the glacier breaks contact with it forward moraine it recedes quickly till it can get another toe hold. I post last year I think it was an pix of the Matanuska Glacier. It is still abot the same have to wait couple years and I'll shoot another.
Ocala trees here in SE don't grow downward. Soil not very deep. 3 feet here at house your on bedrock. But the root ball spreads out. I seen some as wide as 20 feet with the upper end around 125-150 feet. they seem to rock on the ball in high winds and they do get undercut with rivelet then somewhere something moves and the slide starts. In Washington the have glacier till and clay on the hillsides. bad combination. Here it is just an peat type soil. Not an true loam but an begininng as this contry was all ice few years ago(geological time) In last ice age the water was lot lower along the coast and all these fjords had rivers of ice flowing thru them. All the glacier till I have seen here is always on the valley floors in SE. Not p on mountain sides.
John