[Sungirl]

Summer..I can understand destroying infected trees.....but why destroy all the trees within those 7 or 8 block radius without waiting a certain amt of time to see if they too were infected?? GIve them a chance. Or...if they are going to take down non infected trees...why not replace them with the same kind of fruit bearing tress to show us that they are not doing it for the OJ companies and to show respect for peoples property. I have noticed how expensive fruit is in the stores....it's outrageous!! ..and this all adds up to deception to me.

[summer]

Re your post #30 -- It's because of the way this disease spreads. A tree within 1900 feet is a potential carrier of the disease. If healthy, it may become infected, and then you have to worry about OTHER trees 1900 MORE feet away. By cutting down the currently healthy tree within 1900 feet, you are helping to stop the spread of the disease, and in effect, making the diseased tree be quarantined -- because now, there are no other trees around that can act as carriers of the disease.

To show you what this means in real terms: they were about to cut down 80,000 trees in the year 2000 when this program stopped because of complaints and lawsuits. Yet, now, in 2002, in order to eradicate this disease -- because it has spread to healthy trees within 1900 feet, and then spread again -- they have to cut down more than 200,000 trees. In the two years of no action, things got much, much worse.

As for replacing a diseased tree with a healthy tree, I believe they did start doing that -- or, they were reimbursing people to replace the trees. I'm not sure. If I hear anything more, I'll let you know :)