Many trees in the region are dying. It has survived worse droughts. At this point it is hard to say there is anything that can be done. My concern is that nobody seems to know or care that this is happening. This is a living metaphor in a living archetype.
Civilizations come and go.
When the flowering tree, in Black Elk's vision, lost its leaves, his entire culture was decimated within one generation. The Hopis tell us it is the responsibility of the True Human Being to keep the world in balance through prayer, meditation and ceremony. All three of these activities concentrate the attention and create an opening or receptivity to the archetypal realm. They allow us to see things and events in a sacred manner. We live in a world out of balance, where all the people are following their own little dreams and pursuing their own self-interests.