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Report: Beetles on track to kill lodgepole forests in 3-5 years
Denver Post ^
| 14 jan 08
Posted on 01/14/2008 10:08:55 AM PST by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank; george76
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posted on
01/14/2008 10:09:28 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
To: rellimpank
“Global warming”, obviously.
To: rellimpank
It is not the beetles that do the damage but the birds going after the beetles.
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posted on
01/14/2008 10:11:32 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
To: rellimpank
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posted on
01/14/2008 10:11:40 AM PST
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Checkmate Cruiser")
To: rellimpank
When we lived in South Carolina, we had lot’s of pines in our front yard. During the quiet morning hours you could hear a constant scrubbing sound coming from them and piles of sawdust all around. We tried everything to kill them, but to no avail. There is a new systemic from bayer that we are using on our black locusts, persimmons, and pines here in Wisconsin. It’s expensive! About $10 per tree per year. We have Borer beetles in some of the locusts and we should know if it works this spring.
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posted on
01/14/2008 10:14:51 AM PST
by
blackdog
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How about discounting log cabin homes to use up the die off?
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posted on
01/14/2008 10:15:17 AM PST
by
polymuser
(Don't vote for Kennedy Wing of the GOP)
To: rellimpank
I always knew Ringo and McCartney were trouble!
To: RightWhale
Bush’s fault.
If he had signed the Kyoto treaty, there would have been an immediate cooling of the earth due to the lowering of the greenhouse classes. The increased cooling would have had the effect of a net increase in rainfall, which then would have get the trees healthy and strong enough to fight off the infestation.
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posted on
01/14/2008 10:17:36 AM PST
by
Glennb51
To: rellimpank; goldstategop; coloradan
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posted on
01/14/2008 10:19:00 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
To: Glennb51
When it rains the forest gets fungus. Can’t win.
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posted on
01/14/2008 10:20:28 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
To: blackdog
There is a new systemic from bayer I used to work at a hardware store and was slightly taken off balance when I saw my first Bayer insecticide.
Why?
Bayer Laboratory was part of IG Farben a 3rd Reich company that developed products for the Nazi War machine, including Zyklon-B used in the gas chambers.
Kinda creepy to me, knowing they're still at it, only insects are the new enemy.
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posted on
01/14/2008 10:21:03 AM PST
by
Bear_Slayer
(When liberty is outlawed only outlaws will have liberty.)
To: rellimpank
"Mountain Pine Beetles?" Would that be like the Darling Family version of the Beatles?
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posted on
01/14/2008 10:24:05 AM PST
by
NRA1995
(Mr. President and Congress: This is OUR country and don't you forget it!)
To: RightWhale
No its the Beatles all right
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posted on
01/14/2008 10:24:16 AM PST
by
Archon of the East
(Universal Executive Power of the Law of Nature)
To: Lancey Howard
Someone better tell the beetles to get with the global warming program. Their destruction of forests will prematurely release lots of CO2. Perhaps the rats can impose a carbon tax on these critters. These critters better send some donations to the rats or they may face extermination.
To: RightWhale
It is not the beetles that do the damage but the birds going after the beetles. Umm... No.
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posted on
01/14/2008 10:25:00 AM PST
by
TChris
("if somebody agrees with me 70% of the time, rather than 100%, that doesn’t make him my enemy." -RR)
To: Carry_Okie
To: Lancey Howard
“on track”? Is someone feeding the beetles a lot of metrics on this then?
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posted on
01/14/2008 10:27:54 AM PST
by
Rick.Donaldson
(http://www.transasianaxis.com - Visit for lastest on DPRK/Russia/China/Etc --Fred Thompson for Prez.)
To: TChris
Yes, it is . . . in my yard anyway. All the 5000 trees are infested and they are being killed by the birds.
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posted on
01/14/2008 10:27:59 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
To: rellimpank
This looks like a job for DDT. It would get the beetles and the stop the incoming plague of Malaria and Dengue Fever that is forthcoming.
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