[Homestead] Bark Beetles Kill Millions of Acres of Trees in West

bob ford bobford79 at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 17 23:09:54 EST 2008


Do that, and post on your blog site.  Are the trees turning rust colored like the ones in the pics from the NYT?  This is a very big deal.   Stuff like this is aggravating, we spend billions on gov't forestry and eco -groups, and make the laws so restrictive that it is becoming difficult to enjoy the forests, and a d*mn bug is killing all of the trees.  sheesh ....bobford


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--- On Mon, 11/17/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Bark Beetles Kill Millions of Acres of Trees in West
> To: bobford79 at yahoo.com, homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 8:57 PM
> I am dealing with this type problem on my own land.  The
> beetles are
> killing my pine trees.  It is heartbreaking.  I think I
> will take some
> pictures one day soon
> 
> Bev
> 
> bob ford wrote:
> > I'm not going to try to give a quick run-down on
> this article.  I
> > knew the bark beetle problem was big, but I had no
> idea of the near &
> > future ramifications.  From tomorrow's NYT:
> > 
> > excerts:
> > 
> > "In the next three to five years, Mr. Kyhl said,
> virtually all of
> > Colorado’s lodgepole pine trees over five inches in
> diameter will be
> > lost, about five million acres. “Already in many
> places, every
> > lodgepole over five inches is dead as far as the eye
> can see,” he
> > said.".......
> > 
> > ".........Hoping to keep their forests from
> completely dying, to earn
> > money by selling dead and infected trees and to
> mitigate fire risks,
> > landowners are scrambling to cut the pines. If enough
> are cut — up to
> > 75 percent — it might leave some behind that, with
> less competition
> > for water, can survive......."
> > 
> > "The dead trees that blanket the mountains are
> shifting ecosystems as
> > well."
> > 
> > "The other major problem is large numbers of
> falling trees. In
> > Colorado and Wyoming, officials have closed 38
> campgrounds for fear
> > trees could fall on campers. They have reopened all
> but 14. "
> > 
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/science/18trees.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
> > 
> > 
> > 
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