James, This site is surprisingly and refreshingly up to date for the most part. For once there is one site that is accurate and useful. GA has lots of hemlocks in good condition or at least salvageable (not in the NE part, though). I will be starting a two week private conservation project in October and will be treating close to 10,000 trees (some 10-12' cbh X 125'). Fortunately, I talked them out of their first plan- biological control as the primary control agent. HWA has just arrived and is actually hard to find on most of the property. It is almost indescribably awesome to see and work in intact hemlock forests these days.
Will F. Blozan President, Eastern Native Tree Society President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JamesRobertSmith Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 10:56 PM To: ENTSTrees Subject: [ENTS] Georgia Hemlocks Site I fear these guys waited too long, but here's their site. At least they know that the only real short term solution is chemical treatment. Nothing about saving hemlocks by releasing beetles. http://www.savegeorgiashemlocks.org/ The last time I was hiking in north Georgia, all of the hemlocks were dead wherever I looked. There were some nice stands of hemlocks around Blood Mountain, though. Maybe it's not too late to save some of those. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
