Posted on 05/18/2010 12:29:25 PM PDT by GSWarrior
“Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them.”
No one likes to look at dead forests, but the most serious effects of this will be reservoirs and lakes filling up with sediment, as well as being a serious fire hazard.
***We’re going to Arkansas this August. I hope the beautiful Ozarks are OK.***
They are still green! Lots of rain this year.
When I was young we lived in the Rockies. I saw lots of beautiful trees there in the fall.
Then my dad got a wild hair and decided to move us, kicking and screaming to the Ozarks.
I remember one year in school one teacher said to another,”Aren’t the trees beautiful this year!”
Being used to the Rockies, all I saw were dingey reds, dingey yellows. dingey orange. None of the Brilliant colors I saw in the Rockies!
Just pulling your finger
I'm glad to hear AR has thus far been spared the blight. I hope that somehow, some way, the western states (and MX and CN) will find a currently unknown cure or treatment or at least a way to stop the beetles-*something*.
Pando may be a million years old. They are really unsure. It may also be the largest living organism in the world.
My aspens are in great shape and I see beautiful aspen forests all over Colorado so not sure what disease the foresters are seeing. I am in Colorado Springs but travel all over the state and things seem fine. The pines are being attacked by beetles but that is par for the course. The tree huggers won’t allow logging roads or logging so it is a major issue.
We have had forest fires and blowdowns. Both make a forest weak and they need to be logged. I can spray my property but millions of acres have to be handled differently.
I am smoking a fine cigar and looking at the forest and we are fine here. Summit County and other areas have been devastated though and I feel for their plight.
Logging would have helped slow down the pine beetles and provided good jobs removing the already dead & infected pine trees. That would have helped the un-infected pine trees.
Our DUmmie congresscritters are pushing for more wilderness and closing of more existing roads...before they are voted out.
Waiting for the next massive forest fire where the fire fighters can not use the existing fire roads.
There are other “plagues” of tree deaths that don’t get much attention in the media:
chestnut ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut_blight )
elm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_elm_disease )
citrus ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_canker )
pine ( http://www.forestpests.org/southern/southernpinebeetle.html )
and several others.............
Thank you.
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