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

That's how I see it and it's just some pines here that have it. I
prefer hardwoods, so it's an easy way to move to them

Rob-Va

On 1/7/09, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> No, I don't do anything.  I'm not sure there is anything that can be
> done.  I'm not about to spray or use pesticides even if would help.
> Most are next to inaccessible and on a steep slope-it'd would do more
> damage to the land to harvest them than to leave them.
> It is hard when you see the devastation, but I remind myself that only
> 100 years ago people were watching the chestnuts die... I don't know
> where the beetle came from, from I liken it to a blight.  How it will
> affect the ecosystem, I don't know.
>
> Robert Walton wrote:
>> 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.
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