Posted on 04/26/2008 12:01:29 PM PDT by chessplayer
Every large, mature lodgepole pine forest in Colorado and southern Wyoming will be dead within three to five years, killed in a mountain pine beetle infestation unprecedented in the state.
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
It doesn’t take a blithering idiot to know that DDT will stop this. We should spray it and tell the enviromentalists to go to hell.
Since, as we all know, there have never ever before in the history of the planet been beetle infestations or blights or tree die-offs of any kind, I’m terrified.
I would suggest you look at the forests. It is a real problem when looking at water sheds and fire protection and wild life habitat. It can be handled but only with the right chemicals.............that work.
A great deal of the blame for this pine beetle infestation can be laid at the feet of the Liberals/Enviros.
Aprox. ten years or so ago there was a huge forest ‘blow-down’ near Steamboat Springs. Thousands of trees over hundreds of acres were literally blown down.
Environmental policies in place would not allow the trees to be removed and turned into useable products. As the trees were left to rot it provided a perfect breeding ground for the pine beetles.
So, instead of utilizing the trees and making profits..as well as realizing tax dollars from the products...these same enviro nutjobs are going to spend millions of tax payer dollars on a study of what to do.
Liberal policies just suck.
50 years of fire supression and an inept forest policy and here we are. I guess sometimes being “green” is actually Brown.
Pine peetles are killing all the trees in Colorado. Can't kill the pine beetles (with DDT) since DDT was (falsely) accused of killing people many years by people who want all bugs and all trees to live.
solution?
Kill more people. Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot were a good start ....
Most of the Ash trees are gone due to the Emerald Ash Borer.
That’s gonna be one hotter than hell banging on the door forest fire when she goes up.
The death of a certain batch of trees is a catastrophe? Guess 45 million aborted people pale in comparison. /sarc
Forest fire will cause lodgepole seeds to sprout and renew the forest. Fire opens the cones to release the seeds.
Several barrels were found rusting or on their sides leaking DDT concentrate into the soil. Apparently, this was happening all over Colorado.
So...that*s when the environmentalists got involved and succeeded in getting it banned.
There was a fear that it would leach into the water table.
it seems to me that many “environmental” policies are often the source of much environmental damage - why?
they are usually advocated by academics, they usually deal with statistics - particularly on what MIGHT happen if an action is taken while ignoring both the practical consequences or experienced-time-tested instinct of unintended consequences of not taking that action
malaria could have been wiped out in africa today were it not for the ban on ddt
We always need rain down here, but are deathly afraid the lightning will trigger a wildfire.
Our own property is covered with 40 acres of lodgepoles, too.
The Mason Gulch Fire got within 3 miles of us, but we were smokey for several days with embers blowing in.
There was seedlings EVERYWHERE the following year.
Roadless wildnernesses areas was another dumb idea, IMO.
Until last year I had lived on Cape Cod for 12 years (big mistake, lovely place except for the people), and in 1999 I was told the beetle mentioned here would destroy all the pine trees on the Cape within 3 years. For any of you who have never been there, if it were not for pine trees there would be no trees on the Cape at all.
When I escaped last year there as many if not more trees then 1999. Pine trees grow like weeds and it seems as if every cone they drop turns into another 10-15 new trees.
It said I was trying to download a known threat and did I want to block it.
I've provided spaces so (I hope) it's not good here.
/ Avenue A . Inc .
Just warnin'
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