It's coming our way.....

What does the management area consist of? Removing all the affected host trees?

 

Strange indeed…and illogical. Imagine if they took that approach with dogs. Instead of possibly getting parvovirus we’ll just put all dogs down. Imagine that approach with humans. Instead of possibly getting Covid, we’ll just shoot you in the head. Crazy stupid.

 

Management of spread, not management of the trees. There are limitations for moving the wood out of an affected area during higher risk times of the year. I think I read that 12% of the trees in the state are White Ash.

edit: The White Ash we sold to Ames Trutemper last year went to their mill. At the mill they can receive logs from infested areas but are supposed to process the log within a certain amount of time - I believe they sort the loads as they are received. Defining the 10-mile radius is part of that scheme.

 

TOH, Asia.

 

You are suggesting a vaccination of trees against EAB? This morning we are shopping for pour-on insecticide to apply to our cattle. One of my concerns is to limit off-target damage. It costs about 8 cents per day per animal if it used a lick block. It is not a lasting treatment. A vaccination would need to be quite specific to the EAB (we don’t want a vaccinated tree to kill every bug it encounters).

The scorched-earth approach you mention is in use today in agriculture (Google avian influenza to see how many millions of poultry have been killed in order to maybe save the rest.)

 

Oriental Bittersweet, …

We humans are pretty good at transporting things from one ecosystem to another.

 

See eckie and Eric wanderwegs posts. And we don’t eat trees like we do chickens or their eggs.

 

Ok. You had quoted Cash Larue, not the others, so I read it that light. I’ll go back a reread their comments.

 

Shhh....they don't need any more ideas.....

 

Maybe that's what they plan on doing......
I only read the headline, but the headline perked my ears because of what some of you guys are experiencing. It does say ,"preparing".....??

 

Yep, not more than 2 years ago,Iowa experienced and major bird flu BS outbreak. Millions of healthy chickens were killed, raising chicken prices. They didn't even actively kill the chickens, they just shut off the ventilation for the coops they were in. Suffocating them, or giving them heat stroke.......sad

 

The man who plants the tree,
seldome sits in the shade.

 

I have quite a few trees here that I planted and can sit in the shade of now...heck the row of poplars out back have to be 50-60' tall now...even the red oaks have to be over 20'

 

Interestring.

Doesn't china own chicken farms in the U.S.????

 

I don’t know of them having a major stake in US poultry, but hogs is a different story (Smithfield).

“Stamping out” a disease is fairly common practice. A neighbor was just telling me about how back in the 60’s his bees had Foul Brood, and they had to burn all 8 hives, bees and all.

 

I believe that's still the practice. At least it was when we were involved in the local bee club, and they talked about what the state could do....

 

When I used to live in Havana ND the SD state line was 1 mi south and there was a 1/2 mile long row of cottonwood on the line that an old guy said his grandfather planted them in 1899 and most of them were gigantic and still doing well when I moved 15 years ago.

 

That’s really cool. Those Cottonwood trees get massive. There is a Cottonwood tree along the Highline canal in Denver that is 13 feet wide. It’s probably been there since before the state was settled. The news did a story on it a while ago.