[george76]

from Canada to Mexico...

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[G8 Diplomat]

Al Gore is deeply saddened...

[Salamander]

We have a weird new pine borer beetle killing a lot of trees, here.
Supposedly, they were “accidentally” imported in Chinese cargo.

[UnklGene]

[RC2]

Bring back DDT before we loose everything. I believe that it has been proven that DDT doesn’t hurt a thing.

[TexasCajun]

What eats bark-beetles?

[RoadKingSE]

Beetles devour Colorado forests ( and from Canada to Mexico )

I knew this would happen because the USDA failed to quarantine these 4 specimens in back in '64.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Geez, I can be a slow learner, but how many frickin times do we have to go through this 100% predictable experience, always so devastating to forests? The Greenies say we can’t log ‘em, we can’t clear ‘em, so we have to undergo total destruction, either by horrific firestorm or bark beetle. Same crap everywhere.

[kanawa]

Seen quite a bit of this in BC last month.
According to information signs along the way, the infected trees are being harvested while still of value.

Here's a stitch of two photos in the Revelstoke area showing some infected trees as well as areas that have been harvested...

Here's a zoom in on some of the infected area..

[TChris]

...but cutting trees is morally reprehensible, because... because... the envirowackos say so!

Environmentalism Kills!

[woodbutcher1963]

“The U.S. Forest Service has brought other agencies into a cooperative effort, but can’t move fast enough to contain the problem, Carroll said. Private landowners are doing most of the work of thinning trees so far.”

This quote underlines the problem. The Forest Service brings in other agencies. The private landowner brings in a CHAINSAW.

In Canada they are cutting this timber as fast as they can. They do not let stupid preservationist keep injuctions from harvesting timber.

[SunkenCiv]

"It was so jack-strawed, even the game couldn't get through,"

"...kinda like Blair's foreign policy." [rimshot!]

[goldstategop]

The enviro wackos eliminated logging as an industry. In one of those unintended consequences, they got the bark beetle to take care of the deadwood in the forests for them.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[dragnet2]

All these trees that are brown are dead. No saving them when they get to this point.

[A CA Guy]

Came in from China, right?

[montomike]

Forests evolve. They recover from the burn, brush grows, new trees grow up, get thick, beetles come in and make them susceptible to a burn, the burn occurs, beetles get burned, brush grows, etc...

[stormer]

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.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

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.

[RightWhale]

Bark beetles seem to like willow around here but they don’t kill the trees. What kills the trees is the woodpeckers going after the bark beetles.