[MR] Firewood Ban at Pennsic

[Wolf Silveroak]

The Gypsy Moth decimated parts of southern New Jersey last summer. My InLaws 
back yard (in the Wharton State Forest area) still has dead trees and looks 
somewhat bare.

-Wolf
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dexter Guptill" <3fgburner at gmail.com>
To: "Merry Rose" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: [MR] Firewood Ban at Pennsic


> My Lady Wife said they've got one outbreak in Maryland, that they're
> trying to contain. Essentially, it involves cutting down everything,
> and chipping it down to 1/2 inch bits. Then you root and destroy the
> stumps.
>
> Areas of Michigan and Detroit look like an arboreal Black Death has
> hit -- there are so many dead trees, they can't cut them all down.
>
> On 6/29/07, Scribe0002 at aol.com <Scribe0002 at aol.com> wrote:
>> A particularly nasty pest has been found in PA, near Pennsic. As a 
>> result,
>> the PA Dept of Agriculture has banned import or export of live ash trees 
>> or any
>>  firewood into the area around Pennsic. The article can be found at:
>> _http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07179/797791-113.stm_
>> (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07179/797791-113.stm)
>
> Erich von Kleinfeld,
> mka
> -- 
> Dex
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>
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