NewWest.Net: Report: Battling Forest Beetles May be Counter-Productive.
”Drought and high temperature are likely the overriding factors behind the current bark beetle epidemic in the western United States ... [snip] ... Because logging and thinning cannot effectively alleviate the overriding effects of climate, it will do little or nothing to control these outbreaks.” Logging and thinning won’t do a damned thing. When the beetles killed nearly all of our piñon trees here in Northern NM, clouds of beetles were swarming over the landscape, far and wide. A tree would turn that sickly yellow-green within a month, be completely dead two months later. Three months from lush and green to brown and dead. That fast. Enjoy your pines while you’ve got ‘em, and water the ones you have control over.
Comments:
There are no comments at this time for this entry.
Next entry: CNN: Topeka 'renames' itself 'Google, Kansas'. >>
