Will, has any of the biological controls shown any promise? Don there are Eastern Hemlocks in Arizona? Are they a subspecies to what see out east?
On Sep 28, 9:47 pm, "Will Blozan" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.- Hide > quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
