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Beetles devour Colorado forests ( and from Canada to Mexico )
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| August 27, 2007
| CHRIS WOODKA
Posted on 08/27/2007 8:19:00 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76
What eats bark-beetles? ...Bark sharks?
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posted on
08/27/2007 10:48:37 AM PDT
by
Safetgiver
(So simple, even a Muslim can do it.)
To: kanawa
Are you from Revelstoke? I spent three years in Mica. (Ya better like snow.)
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posted on
08/27/2007 10:49:11 AM PDT
by
stormer
To: george76
My place is on the east slope of the central Washington Cascades. The spruce bud worm damage has really been bad this year in the 3000 ft range. Up higher, tussock moths are going to town. End result: big fire. I got some info from the DNR entomologist who said we would need at least a week of -10F to kill them, and it just doesn’t get that cold around here.
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posted on
08/27/2007 10:54:42 AM PDT
by
stormer
To: Alberta's Child
Foresters have a scientific solution, but are prevented from acting by Sierra Club lawyers.
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posted on
08/27/2007 10:58:16 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: montomike
Many communities like South Lake Tahoe are prevented by liberal politicans from cleaning up around their own homes.
Thus a small fire explodes when the flames enter the neighborhood.
The people who violated the law and cleared away fuel away from their homes...still have a home.
Many of the people who followed the politican’s demands...lost their homes.
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posted on
08/27/2007 11:03:22 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Up here in Alberta they have a solution, too -- it's called "Cut all the damn trees down now if they're going to be infested anyway!"
LOL.
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posted on
08/27/2007 11:06:17 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
To: Alberta's Child
Alberta is smarter than us.
Private people generally are good managers of their private lands but the feds are in big trouble.
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posted on
08/27/2007 11:12:34 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76; GMMAC; Clive; exg; kanawa; conniew; backhoe; -YYZ-; Former Proud Canadian; Squawk 8888; ..
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posted on
08/27/2007 11:21:12 AM PDT
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: RC2
Bring back DDT before we loose everything. I believe that it has been proven that DDT doesnt hurt a thing.I was listening to Dr. Walter Williams on Rush's show on Friday, and he said volunteers had eaten 34 ounces of DDT over a period of 1 1/2 years, and there were no side effects.
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posted on
08/27/2007 11:24:17 AM PDT
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: george76
“Hopefully the Canadian politicans are smarter than ours.”
Ha! Good luck with that.
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posted on
08/27/2007 11:25:33 AM PDT
by
-YYZ-
(Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
To: woodbutcher1963
...So what you end up with are forests of dead standing timber which is much more suseptable to lightning strikes and therefore hugh forest fires. That's series!
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posted on
08/27/2007 11:41:57 AM PDT
by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: george76
So what? That is nature at its best. We would have only used those trees to build more houses to encroach on nature’s wetlands or threaten some indigenous grasses, etc., or to make paper to print right wing propaganda.
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posted on
08/27/2007 12:24:46 PM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
To: Mind-numbed Robot
These massive fire have, are, and will also pollute the air and the water supplies.
The heat is so high and for such a long duration that it kills everything in the soil.
Ash will kill fish, turtle, frogs...that depend on oxygen in the water.
and ...
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posted on
08/27/2007 12:34:29 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Smogger
Same for us here in Tennessee about three years ago. I own a partly wooded acre in west Knox County. Before the beetles hit I had about 30 or 40 tall pines on my property. Now I have one or two that survived. The same thing happened all over east Tennessee and devastated the pine forests.
To: stormer
I spent three years in Mica...
Are you from Revelstoke? (Ya better like snow.)Is that Mica Creek on Lake Revelstoke?
Nah, I just camped on the shore of the lake for a few days in July during my cross country trip.
Not too keen on snow but sure appreciated when we were there though.
Took the road up the mountain and walked the trails.
It was very hot in the mountain top meadows and coming upon patches of snow was a great relief.
Sam cooled off by licking it, while I rubbed some on my face...brrr...ahh.
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posted on
08/27/2007 2:53:09 PM PDT
by
kanawa
(Don't go where you're looking, look where you're going.)
To: kanawa
Is that some kind of cow??
Holy camera angle Batman!
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posted on
08/27/2007 3:02:39 PM PDT
by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: kanawa
OK - (hangs head) - it’s not a cow 8^)
You have a great homepage - love your “10 Commandments...”
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posted on
08/27/2007 3:08:57 PM PDT
by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: jonno
Is that some kind of cow??ROTFLMAO
I'm always asking him, "Sammy, are you a cow?" when I catch him eating grass.
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posted on
08/27/2007 3:15:26 PM PDT
by
kanawa
(Don't go where you're looking, look where you're going.)
To: george76
Good question for a forester : What eats bark-beetles?
__________________________________________________________
chainsaws
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posted on
08/27/2007 9:53:18 PM PDT
by
forester
(An economy that is overburdened by government eventually results in collapse)
To: Salamander
We clear away dead and dying trees promptly to allow the healthy trees a better chance.
It seems to be very effective.
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posted on
09/05/2007 11:05:01 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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