Trees in trouble

Star-Tribune ^ | July 31, 2007 | BRODIE FARQUHAR

[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.

[DuncanWaring]

Don’t they make cones with seeds?

Not after they've been infected by the fungus.

[george76]

These liberals like to blame everything on global warming.

or Bush.

[Clam Digger]

and rampant insect infestation fueled by global warming

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

[MD_Willington_1976]

actually, polar bears turn green in warmer climates, fungus grows on the hair shafts... the Polar Bears that they displayed in Vancouver BC Canada had that problem... they turned green...

[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?

[Clara Lou]

Fine collect seed cones from those that are still healthy. The extinction scare is premature—unless every tree existing has the fungus and none are producing cones.

[TexasCajun]

People For The Ethical Treatment Of Insects

INSECT RIGHTS ASSOCIATION

[george76]

Liberals have a convenient theory and they do not want to be confused with the facts.

[Dixie Yooper]

Nothing to do with gullible warming

Super Volcano!

[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...

[george76]

LOL

anthropomorphized plants...

.

[SunkenCiv]

If they were sentient, they’d have screaming to be put out of their misery long ago. ;’)

[Brad from Tennessee]

Green! I guess if they don’t just die in warmer weather, as Al Gore infers, it’s some consolation that the bears turn green—the environmentalist’s color of choice.

[george76]

It is fun to laugh at these global warming nuts.

[Minnesoootan]

why would they go extinct? cuz BRODIE FARQUHAR rom the Star Trib said so! ;-)

Not only are there seed cones available from non-infected areas but I would also assume there are millions dormant in the ground just waiting for a fire or clear cut so they can germinate....pretty tuff to extinct a frickin plant!