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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] plant protection
  • Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:07:13 -0600

Sure it is a natural cycle. Ice ages were natural cycles also.

---- Original Message ----
From: gary.masog@gci.net
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] plant protection
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:12:22 -0900

> Interesting, but I disagree that it is global warming. DNR in
>Minn, if
>it is like
>DNR Alaska are just a bunch of bureau-o-rats making jobs for
>themselves.
> Regarding Trees dying in Alaska it primarily is a natural cycle.
>As the
>forest
>age they succumb to die off, mainly by Spruce Bark Beetles up here.
>If the
>forest are not thinned Nature will take care of it with Forest Fires
>or
>Beetles. As
>the trees age they out grow the available moisture or minerals in
>the
>soils, and
>weaken allowing the insects to kill them, or the winds to blow them
>over.
> When I was young it was the fear of Global Cooling, Now it is
>Global
>Warming.
>In my opinion it has been cooling allot in Anchorage, the last five
>years,
>and would
>love to get back to those warm winters like we had in the Sixty.
> We love global warming and you should to at -36. News just
>reported way
>more snow cover than normal in the lower 48?
>
>Gary
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
>To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 6:54 AM
>Subject: [NAFEX] plant protection
>
>
>> Getting cold. -36 F this morning. At this temperature plants
>start
>> to die. There are 48 inches of snow on the ground so plants low to
>> the ground are OK. Snow is a good insulator. Snow doesn't melt
>here
>> during the winter. It is getting a little warmer than it was only
>> five years ago. Every winter there would be two week long cold
>snaps
>> of -20 F highs and -40 F lows. If the warmer temperature continues
>> the native forests will weaken and the trees will die. Warmer
>> weather trees will gradually move here. I attended a Minnesota DNR
>> conference in Duluth where it was explained how trees in Northern
>> Minnesota are becoming more diseased due to the slightly warmer
>> weather. This is also happening in Alaska.
>>
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