Hi all,
When I moved to the Sunny Okanagan Valley in “Beautiful British Columbia” (says so right on the licence plates) I didn’t really expect that the forests would be in trouble. Well sure, I had heared and read about as well as seen with my own eyes just how “efficient and stupid” the clear-cutting schemes were.
Highly offensive to someone who reforested five of twentyfive + acres in Ontario with White Pine and selectively logged the rest of the bush. But hey, theats how big business and big money goes about things!
And yes, I knew about Spruce Budworm and the other stuff back east, but I thought that the BC climate took care of the Mountain Pine beetle.
I guess it did in the past but with things warming up it has been many years since it has been consistently cold enough for long enough to kill off the larvae in enough numbers to stop the spread.
Can you imagine it gets bad enough, even the Washington Post starts to pay attention??
Looks like the American West is following, which means all those people who love the High Plains forests of Ponderosa Pine etc. better get with the program.
What’s behind it? Global warming! A pity, isn’t it?