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"trying to eradicate" is a well-chosen phrase, intended or not. Native species (1) are never eradicated & funds spent on such are a bigger mistake than BSLB. At least that one had the political (US) rationale. I suspect there are few here who fully understand how spurious phytosanitary issues are used aggressively by various US producer groups, but Chris' example re potato wart is certainly one of the best. US forestry & agricultural producer groups are aware of exactly one objective: "winning". (1) http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/forestprotection/foresthealth/sheets/spruceb1.pdf Rick Whitman On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Fritz McEvoy <fritzmcevoy@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Chris, Dave and All; > The really sad thing about this story is that all the money wasted on > BSLB mitigation could have been better spent trying to eradicate the real > scourge of softwood forests in N.S., the (Red) Spruce Bark Beetle > - Dendroctonus rufipennis Kirby, which is/has destroying hundreds, if not > thousands, of acres of prime softwood forests in Nova Scotia over the last > decade. The battle to get this pest under control seems nearly non-existent; > at least to me up here in the highlands. All the best. > Fritz McEvoy > Sunrise Valley, CB
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