The pine beetle used to be killed off each winter by the freezing cold. No more. They survive each winter now thanks to global warming. And the beetle population grows and grows and eats more and more trees....destroying an entire Provincial forest.
You may think we can ignor global warming. Not so! It has brought about the destruction of the BC forest and which invasion will cross the pine tundra west to east from the Yukon to northern Quebec by the year 2010. The pine beetle is coming along with the pineapple express. That red area of the middle of British Columbia has been destroyed and killed by the pine beetle; turned into dry cinder, a standing fire hazard; an entire forest gone, divestated, completely and totally gone, dead. Trees that took a hundred years to grow have been ate up like candy in a dozen years; pine beetle candy.
Take a look at the critter coming to you real soon. Thank you Buzz Hargrove! Thank you Ford. Thank you Chevrolet. Thank you GMC.
You may think we can ignor global warming. Not so! It has brought about the destruction of the BC forest and which invasion will cross the pine tundra west to east from the Yukon to northern Quebec by the year 2010. The pine beetle is coming along with the pineapple express. That red area of the middle of British Columbia has been destroyed and killed by the pine beetle; turned into dry cinder, a standing fire hazard; an entire forest gone, divestated, completely and totally gone, dead. Trees that took a hundred years to grow have been ate up like candy in a dozen years; pine beetle candy.
Take a look at the critter coming to you real soon. Thank you Buzz Hargrove! Thank you Ford. Thank you Chevrolet. Thank you GMC.
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Not really global warming's fault, sorry to say. As an ex-forestry worker I can point to a much more proximate cause for the pine beetle epidemic.
BC Didn't suddenly get 10 degrees warmer starting in the 50's. However, provincewide forest fire suppression kicked into high gear. Suddenly instead of the dead trees igniting forest fires that burned out the infestations, the trees were left standing as breeding grounds.
The pine forests of the interior are designed by nature to burn off every 60-80 years. The fact that most pine forests in the province are now 80-100 years old tells you much more clearly why we are having the problems we are. Older trees are also less resistant to fire and disease and infestation.
Sorry, I won't let you ride the global warming horse on this one.
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