Vancouver Sun: On seven plots of ancient forest deep in the Capilano and Seymour watersheds, University of B.C. biogeography professor Lori Daniels has made an alarming discovery: The trees she is monitoring are dying off. The death rate of the forest giants has, in fact, doubled since she first started studying them as a graduate student 17 years ago. Now her finding is part of a comprehensive study of forests across western North American that links an increase in tree mortality to climate …