Posted on 07/28/2007 4:45:54 PM PDT by mdittmar
Washington, D.C. – U. S. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada announced a $400,000 grant that will go to develop new and effective tactics to control bark beetles. The bark beetle has caused much devastation in western forests, including those in the Lake Tahoe basin.
“Western states are currently dealing with the problem of wildfires,” said Reid. “These bark beetles really contribute to the problem, bug-killed trees add to the fuel load, exacerbating the fire cycle. What these pests are essentially doing is turning trees into giant matches. We need to find a way to deal with this infestation so that the beetles don’t detract from the work we’re doing to fight the current work to prevent future wildfires. This is very good news for Nevada.”
Reid recently arranged a bipartisan meeting with Jim Hughes, Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the Interior, and ten Western senators. During that meeting, the group brought attention to bark beetles and the problem they pose when it comes to wildfires. Hughes acknowledged the seriousness of the issue.
Bark beetles are difficult to study because they spend the majority of their lives protected under bark. University of Nevada Reno’s Gary Blomquist will conduct research to gain an understanding of how bark beetles use natural chemicals called pheromones to find trees to attack.
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More Reid Nepotism, eh?
Soooo little...
SOOOOO TERRIBLY LATE.........
Enviros should be proud of all their results on this issue.
Thank the 9th Circuitious Court for stopping all salvage operations of burned timber areas, also.
This just gives the bark beetle more to attack.
This announcement is a very big dog and pont show.
All hat——No brains....
dog and pont show.’’
Should be DOG and PONY show. sorry.
More Reid Nepotism, eh?”
Most likely...
The beetles have a 25 year head start ++++++
Reid has a 70+ year head start.
Neither will be easily stopped.
Specially wioth the environazis getting into the act.
Hey Harry!! Bark beetles eat bark. Terrorist kill people. Now, grow a spine and fight the right enemy, moron. Oh, and I want to be paid my portion of your pork for the study of Bark beetles.
There Fixed!
Sort of like Senators and Senate Rules
Because of bark beetles and fires, I have enough firewood to last me the next twenty years. Pinyons have been especially hard hit.
Not as difficult to study as politicians like Reid who has spent majority of his career under a rock.
hmmm..their bark must be bigger than their bite.
WOW, so the democrates really are making the changes they promised! What a bunch of loosers!
Is that a bark beetle or a dung beetle?
If history is any guide, when we are faced with thousands of acres of these dead trees, we will not allow anyone to harvest them. Thus the crowd who lectures the rest of us about “sustainability” would rather see the forest rot than for us to harvest any of it.
I suspect the logging companies would be willing to spend some money on research to protect the resource if there were a profit from it in the end.
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