Posted on 01/14/2008 10:08:55 AM PST by rellimpank
GOLDEN — Federal and state forestry officials say at current rates, mountain pine beetles will kill the majority of Colorado's large-diameter lodgepole pine forests within three to five years.
In a news conference this morning, Regional Forester Rick Cables and Jeff Jahnke, the Colorado State Forester, announced the results of the 2007 aerial survey of the state's forests.
The survey concluded that the beetle infestation in 2007 claimed 500,000 new acres of trees, bringing the total number acres of up to 1.5 million since the first signs of the outbreak 1996.
Officials described the infestation as a "catastrophic event" that has now crossed into Front Range areas.
"Dead and dying trees that were isolated to 5 northern
Colorado counties last year can now be seen in some Front Range areas as well as southern Wyoming," Cables said in a statement released at the U.S. Forest Service regional office in Golden. "The bark infestation has spread dramatically," he said. "This is an unprecedented event."
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. The Forest Service did actually put out a bid for loggers to harvest dead trees in Summit County, but there were no takers. The reason: excessive regulations had closed all the sawmills in Colorado, and the amount of money the forest service offered wasn't enough to transport the logs all the way to Utah and still make a profit.
In Ohio, there is no ask. It's illegal to move firewood between counties. $4,000 fine.
I think yoko ono means one egg, but in France that is an oeuf.
But probably not by their founders.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem/
There is starting to be. They are being used to grind up into wood pellets for stoves. This is one of the very few things they are useful for.
I understand that the US government assisted some in the 3rd reich to come to the US. Whether those were war criminals is a whole nuther argument.
As far as the Aryan thought-process goes, it has only been used on insects.
I believe it is Grammy. We have had huge areas in east Tennessee where the pines have been hit hard by beetles.
Only if the trees are allowed to burn or rot. If they're cut down and turned into lumber and paper, the CO2 won't be released (for a very long time, if ever), and, in addition, if new trees are planted in the same areas, even MORE CO2 will be taken up than the entire older forest (young, growing trees take up far more CO2 than mature forest trees).
Actually, Bayer's origin had nothing whatsoever to do with Nazis---the company was founded in 1862. "National Socialism" didn't exist.
Great news. More destruction of our native trees - the Chestnut blight, the Dutch Elm disease, the Hemlock parasites, those damn Asian long-horned beetles, now this.
Do you think the environmentalists will allow the trees to be used for something useful? With the CO2 hysteria, perhaps the left and their rat allies can be persuaded to harvest the infested trees. Given past restrictions, I am not optimistic.
Unfortunately, I can't disagree. One would hope that the continuing track record of negative facts about knee-jerk "eco" policies would eventually get through to those people who are "not" knee-jerk eco-freaks.
I mean, if the trees are dead, why not cut them down and use them, and plant new resistant trees in their place?? A perfectly sane, rational policy. To instead allow the dead trees to stand until, inevitably, they catch fire is simply stupid.
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