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We have Oak Wilt, carried by a beetle dangerously close to 
us, about 15 minutes away. It is also often spread through 
firewood, some idiot cutting down an oak that's died from 
it and selling the wood, or using the same chain saw 
afterwards without cleaing it. If you've visited my blog 
you understand the size of our oaks and concern around 
here.

Another thing the article brings up is the loss of 
property values in the area where the destruction, and 
preventative destruction is taking place. One thing I am 
big on as a botanist is encouraging people to have trees 
of all ages, including babies and teenagers, so to speak 
since landscapes are dynamic. This helps in maintaining 
property value. I am so often amazed that people's 
landscapes include only the mature (because everything 
else has been cleared away, such as my neighbor's place) 
or in new subdivision built on scraped ground, young trees 
of the same relative age brought in for landscaping. 
Diversity isn't just limited to species, but should 
involve life stages as well.

Maybe those of you managing woodlots have an understanding 
of this, but in Texas very few do. Large ranches go to 
great lengths to take out what they see as undesirable 
underbrush through controlled burns. I understand they 
want grass and have little need of firewood, but they 
don't even protect their riparian areas. We make sure on 
our property we have trees of all ages.

--Sage

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 05:15:53 -0800 (PST)
 bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > From this am Wash Post.  This sounds like a significant 
> > pestilence in Susan Jane's neck of the woods ....bobf
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> Authorities Hope Beetle Invasion Can Be Ground to a Halt
>  
> Crystal Franciosi, a U.S. Department of Agriculture tree 
> climber, records her findings after checking for Asian 
> longhorned beetles in Worcester, Mass. (Stephan Savoia - 
> AP) 
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> WORCESTER, Mass. -- A wood-devouring beetle has gained a 
> foothold in New England, and authorities plan to cut down 
> large numbers of infested trees and grind them up to stop 
> the pest from spreading to the region's celebrated 
> forests and ravaging the timber, tourism and maple-syrup 
> industries
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/04/AR2008110403574.html?hpid=sec-nation
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