[Paloma_55]

If we allow Nancy Pelosi to be the speaker, she and her friend Barbara Boxer will have no problem expanding the "designated wilderness" areas which do not allow any forest management at all.

One could use helicopters and spray for pine beetles if they wanted to, but the environmental whackos would never allow it.

[RegulatorCountry]

We have a lot of people volunteering here in NC, to go out and spray (or even wipe down with soapy water) for aelgids, trying to save the Carolina Hemlocks. Nobody's concerned about political affiliation. They're beautiful trees, and a relative rarity, a throwback to the last ice age. They only survived above a certain altitude, on northern exposures. Most of the balsams on the high balds are already gone, so we don't want a repeat.

[fwdude]

I'm a conservative in every aspect of life; but I'm also an avid proponent of organic methods because they are just smart and are the ultimate conservative stance to take (methods used for thousands of years.) Thoughtlessly "napalming" large areas of forest for a beatle problem is a knee jerk reaction that's likely to do little to solve the issue, and would probably upset other biological systems, initiating a host of other problems. "Spraying" is almost certainly the very thing that caused the beatles spreading in the first place.

OK, flame away.