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Try #3: June 10. By accident last evening, I thought one name and typed the other; _P. tremuloides_ should have been _P. grandidentata_, and the jumbled common name, Large-toothed Aspen should have been Large-toothed Poplar. That is what writing on automatic pilot can lead to. Note the object lessons here. A) Redundancy is an important component of any information package. This might include e.g. listening to more than one source with respect to an issue. The man with two watches may not know what time it is but he will not be mistakenly overconfident that he knows the exact time. B) It is not difficult to admit having made a mistake. You just say those three magic words, 'I was wrong'. Yt, DW Try # 2: had wrong address for GC Dear All, June 9, 2007 Today being warm and calm, I felled a fairly large (24" diameter; 34 paces= 85' tall) Large-toothed Aspen (_Populus tremuloides_), that had a dead upper main branch and a _Fomes_ bracket at about eye-height; warm for insect activity drawn by freshly cut wood and the expected touch of sour sap and calm for more reliable aiming of a tree with perhaps considerable rot at the base. Using CFIA BSLB-BS logic as a template, it soon became apparent what was killing this tree, that might otherwise have lived many more years. At about 4 paces along the trunk I found a weevil and at about 18 paces, as I marked lengths for later chunking, I found two more weevils. At this point there should be ominous background music and the hairs on the back of your neck should stick out and start quivering. Notice the six salient points. 1) There were only 3 small weevils and this much larger tree was dying. Can you imagine what kind of shape that tree would have been in had there been 4 or 5 of these obviously very dangerous weevils ? Why it might have died as a mere seedling. 2) These insects are diabolically clever; while this tree was being cut, all three managed to crawl around to the side of the tree that was going to be uppermost when it landed. 3) At a glance, there may be two or three weevil species involved, so we may be dealing with a conspiracy; an axis of weevil. 4) When these dangerous weevils have wiped out the forests, and the associated carbon fixation, then it will become hot, especially after the oceans have boiled dry. 5) This tragic outcome may be averted if these weevils become lazy, like the BSLB were in Point Pleasant Park during the period of at least 10 years that they just sat around and looked at trees. 6) Alternatively they may change their habits, just like the BSLB did only in reverse; harmful to harmless instead of harmless to harmful. Yours truly, Dave Webster, Kentville
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