[EggsAckley]

They make it sound like white pine blister rust is something new. I’ve heard about it for more than 60 years.

Nothing to do with gullible warming.

[Clara Lou]

Why would whitebark pines go extinct? Don’t they make cones with seeds?

[Brad from Tennessee]

Replace the the white pine with a more blight-resistant species and replace the grizzlies with polar bears, dyed brown.

[Clam Digger]

and rampant insect infestation fueled by global warming

My BS detector pegged at max int he first line of the article.

[donna]

A history of fire suppression, an invasive fungal plague, and rampant insect infestation fueled by global warming

Isn't the insect infestation caused by a lack of fire?

[TexasCajun]

People For The Ethical Treatment Of Insects

INSECT RIGHTS ASSOCIATION

[TChris]

...rampant insect infestation fueled by global warming...

Oh for Pete's sake...

Is there anything left that isn't caused by Global Warming^TM?

The forests are in trouble because man-hating envirowackos refuse to allow loggers to keep forests healthy. They're in trouble because tree-hugging nutcases have anthropomorphized plants, creating a morality from whole cloth.

Those who worship Gaia would be just fine with the extinction of man. But, painful as the truth may be, the fact is that forests are healthier when people harvest trees and cull dead wood regularly.

[P-40]

So let the forests burn periodically as God intended...

[Minnesoootan]

Griz eat pine trees? huh,whoda thunk it....

[dfwgator]

Trees in trouble

"The oaks are just too greedy..."

[Exton1]

What is left out is that these problems are ALL the cause of medaling by the Environmental kook groups. Because they would not allow timbering, we had the fire. Because they would not allow the harvesting of fire dead trees, we have the bugs. Funny how the meddlers are never blamed.

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown

New!!: Dr. John Ray's
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kinda...sorta...naaaaahhhh

[GSWarrior]

The national park service is responsible for virtually all of the problems in Yellowstone park...primarily due to overgrazing by an artifically pumped up elk population....something I don’t think the park service has never officially claimed responsibility for.

[HKMk23]

Aww, no worries.

By the end if this decade, the Gorbats will be shrieking about the coming Ice Age, which will sort this all out. Beetles and fungus will both get subsumed by the advancing freeze, while the trees will seed out and lie dormant until the ice recedes again.

OR

We could pull out those 20-sided dice and make our “saving throw” hoping for “00”: Divine Intervention.

[Sawdring]

Why does everything bad come from Eurasia? Purple Loosestrife, Eurasian Water Milfoil, Those flying carp working their way up the Mississippi, the Asian Beetle etc. Is there anything that is invasive that we can give back? Maybe ruin their fields with the hated North American Canadian Thistle, we could choke Eurasia’s rivers with the Northern Pike and infest their houses with Boxelder Bugs. In my estimation, it is time for a little payback.