+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 10 of 10

Thread: Will not be political, or religious

  1. #1
    Join Date
    Jan 2004
    Location
    neither here nor there
    Posts
    5,342

    Default Will not be political, or religious

    Won't say anything about global warming ....
    just show you what little bitty green pine beetles can do in very short order, when weather (the natural deterrent) cannot keep them in check. This is what a goodly portion of my beautiful SD Black Hills look like now. It's heart breaking to say the very least. All it will take is one spark, and the Black Hills will be the Bleak Hills.

    P1010147copy.jpg
    Trouts don't live in ugly places.

    A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.

    Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Jun 2006
    Location
    NE Gwinnett Co., GA
    Posts
    5,933

    Default

    "Will not be political or religious", that's no fun. Just kidding. Pine beetle are non-political but may be the spawn of Satan. I had a large pine tree cut at my last house when it was opportune rather than wait for it to die due to pine beetles. Those trees could be harvested for pulp I think if the owner (governemt?) would allow it and cut down the fire risk and use the wood for a good purpose. We still make a lot of paper in the USA.
    Want to hear God laugh? Tell him Your plans!!!

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Mar 2003
    Location
    Klamath Falls, Oregon, USA
    Posts
    1,783

    Default

    Betty we had the same thing happen a couple of years back in my part of Oregon. In fact I posted some pictures similiar to yours in FAOL. So far we have been lucky and not had any major fires started in that portion of the forest. However we have had a lot fires in other parts. Just lucky because what is waiting for a lightning strike in all our dead lodgepole pine.

    Biggest problem for me with fly fishing is that many of the dead trees have fallen or be cut down over the streams making them a pain in the posterior to fish.

    I feel for you.

    Tim

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Jan 2004
    Location
    neither here nor there
    Posts
    5,342

    Default

    When there are hundreds of thousands of acres involved, it's near impossible to cut them all. All through Wyoming , South Dakota, and Nebraska we also saw the results of carelessly tossed cigarettes, lightning strikes, and un watched campfires. The air was thick with smoke from forest fires and range fires. (only kewl parts were the flame red sunrises and sunsets!). It's all going to go up in a heartbeat, and will never be the same again.
    Trouts don't live in ugly places.

    A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.

    Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.

  5. #5
    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    North Carolina
    Posts
    1,156

    Default

    Very saddening! I've seen the same thing in Montana and it's very disheartening!
    When you can arrange your affairs to go fishing, forget all the signs, homilies, advice and folklore. JUST GO.

  6. #6
    Join Date
    Jul 2011
    Location
    n/a
    Posts
    479

    Default

    Betty,
    Not all that comes post fire is bad:

    http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0604f.htm

    Though I certainly agree that fire started carelessly or maliciously by man is disgusting I also look at fire started by nature as part of the cycle of maintaining a healthy ecosystem. It is yet another part of nature like the weather that must run it's normal cycle.

  7. #7
    Join Date
    Jun 2006
    Location
    NE Gwinnett Co., GA
    Posts
    5,933

    Default

    You stirred up a memory of a old friend from high school and college. He used to catch a ride with me from home back to school after I got a car. Bill Gabbert was a quiet kid , who was in the band and majored in Forestry at Ms. State. Apparently he has been fighting forest fires for a good while now.

    http://www.wildlandfireassociates.com/staff/detail/42
    Want to hear God laugh? Tell him Your plans!!!

  8. #8

    Default

    We can see it every day from our home here in Livingston.....awful.

  9. #9
    Join Date
    May 2002
    Location
    DFW metroplex, TX USA
    Posts
    1,164

    Default

    It hasn't hit our immediate area yet, but Winter Park (not too far west as the pine beetle flies), has been hit hard. There were reports in the first two years of tourists asking locals where they could buy "one of those pretty red pine trees".

  10. #10

    Default

    We have the same problems with the Pine Bark Beetle here on the east coast also. Between those and the Gypsy Moths, we are loosing a lot of good trees. In the Nat./State forests they won't let anyone go in and remove the dead ones nor will they spray the outside edges of the dead areas. Every time any thing is said about possibly spraying, the environmentalists threaten lawsuits. After a while, the tree-huggers will only have dead trees to wrap their arms around.

+ Reply to Thread

Similar Threads

  1. Know your snakes in SC, NC & GA: This is not a political website
    By Uncle Jesse in forum A Learning Experience, Pass it On.
    Replies: 11
    Last Post: 05-25-2014, 12:26 AM
  2. Typical government goof up (not political)
    By Royce in forum Sound Off
    Replies: 13
    Last Post: 02-05-2010, 07:00 PM
  3. Replies: 10
    Last Post: 10-14-2008, 05:19 PM
  4. Tough to say without being political
    By dudley in forum Conservation
    Replies: 30
    Last Post: 02-13-2006, 06:20 PM

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts