Posted: 8/20/2015 6:23:29 PM EDT
Started our annual spray project, this year the crew is using Hughes 500 helos instead of the Hillers.
We're about 20% done on a 9,600 acre run. |
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Ah, We are desperately fighting the pine beetle for years but, unable to spray. The granola's in the State have made it impossible for it to be controlled through aerial spray. So we have been cutting and piling the wood and pay dearly during fire season. QFT I was just in the Frank Church Wilderness last week and it's been devastated. Dead trees as far as the eye can see. 
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Ah, We are desperately fighting the pine beetle for years but, unable to spray. The granola's in the State have made it impossible for it to be controlled through aerial spray. So we have been cutting and piling the wood and pay dearly during fire season. Not for nothing, but here in the southeast we have your beetles cousin, the Southern Pine Beetle (SPB). The only effective control for SPB is to treat it like a cancer; cut out the active spot and a buffer of 1.5x average tree height width of green, uninfested trees, around the active spot. Spraying is simply not cost effective. Now, you may have other issues with cutting out bug spots, but I don't think resistance to spraying is the main limiting factor. SPB is quite the pest, I have personally observed an SPB spot growing at over an acre a day, and the largest spot I've seen was over 200 acres before the owners could get a crew in. |