Posted on 03/13/2006 5:27:42 PM PST by talkradiodaily
Bingo. And other assorted nasties.
Light 'em up; and your crops won't freeze.
That's beneficial.
(I'm amused at the designation, "beneficial." That's SO subjective a designation.)
Recycling is a good thing.
Central heating.
Yep. I read somewhere that the average mosquito is born in an old tire.
Nope it is in Centralia Pennsylvania.
What do you mean nope? Do you know for a fact that there is not a coal mine fire in China burning for decades?
Since the appearance of West Nile virus in New York State last year, Dutchess County, along with the New York State Department of Health, the other counties in southern New York and the New York City Health Department have been conducting an intensive campaign to reduce the population of certain species of mosquitoes that are of public health concern. The goal of this effort is to prevent the occurrence of West Nile virus in our community this year. Our first and most important objective is to eliminate and prevent mosquito breeding habitats. The particular species of mosquitoes that may transmit West Nile prefer to breed in artificial containers with stagnant water. Most important among these is
the common house mosquito, Culex pipiens, and the single greatest source of these disease carriers in the United States is old tires.
http://www.co.dutchess.ny.us/CountyGov/Departments/Health/HDwnv.htm
If we go back to DDT, it won't matter if people use tires for anything. The problem isn't old tires. We're just going back to the natural state of things without the liberal use of DDT.
Bury the bottom row at least 6" in the ground. Drill a 1" hole at the lowest point of the tyres in the upper rows.
Considering that this is in North Dakota, the rainfall is very minimal. There would be more mosquitos from farm ponds and creeks.
Why not suspend bat houses over, say, everytenth tire column?
"...Some of Chinese coal fires have been dated to the Pleistocene Era."
Since we are not using DDT, the problem is old tires. That is where most mosquitoes are born.
When I was a kid, I remember them driving down our street and spraying DDT in a fog mist (didn't even know what it was then).
The best cure is to get rid of the breeding grounds, which is mainly stagnant water.
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Burning Mountain Wingen, New South Wales, Australia
Burning mountain is a burning underground seam of coal. It has been burning for 5,000 years.
I would think it should be possible to mitigate that problem without removing the tires. Shooting holes in them might be dangerous, but there should be some way to perforate them to minimize water accumulation.
I wonder if his cattle are ever tired....
someone had to say it
My friend's little brother got some tire bales and was going to use them and he got in a lot of trouble.
Sigh.
Farmers in Idaho used them by the thousands as smudge pots.
The BLM outlawed them in the 1970's as a source of pollution and made farmers buy tens of thousands of new type of smudge pot. They also made them pay to have the hundreds of thousands of tires taken to a disposal site in the middle of the desert where they were destroyed.
By burning.
Your tax dollars at work.
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