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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

Bev,

I have a lot of pines that are dying from the beetles also. I always
favor hardwoods over pines. Once I see a tree on the decline (at least
in an area I'm working in), I try to cut it down and either use it or
leave it to rot and feed the other trees growing up around it. I
figure that at least that way I can control where it falls and what's
left to grow up where it stood.

I'm curious if you do anything with those pines you have with beetles.
When I saw the pictures on your web site, I wondered about that. I
figure that letting nature take its course is the way to go, but since
I'd like to increase the amount of hardwoods in some areas, I try to
intervene just a little.

Rob - Va

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:57 PM, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> The pines here are dying from pine beetles.  I put some pictures up on
> my site a while back detailing the damage.