Beetles attack Santa Fe pine forests

[Larry Caldwell]

bobsstuff at verizon.net.invalid (Bob Weinberger) writes: 

> BTW, those of us who have a rather long history of working in and studying forestry (45+ yrs. in my
> case) tend not to be as ready, as those with much shorter histories, to ascribe the causes of most
> forest "catastrophies" to relatively recent (in terms of forest life time spans) activities or
> conditions.  In many cases we have seen most of these occurances (or at least seen the evidence of ,
> or had the opportunity to talk with those who directly experienced such occurances) - one or more
> times that happened under conditions that may or may not have close parallels to the current
> conditions.

Not long ago I read the journals of Joel Palmer, who travelled down the 
Columbia River in 1843.  He recorded travelling for days through dead 
forests between the Snake River and The Dalles.  

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