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Celebrating Deep Freeze, Insect Experts See a Chance to Kill Off Invasive Species.
Insects, whether introduced pests like the hemlock woolly adelgid or native ones like the southern pine beetle, have weakened forests from Cape May, N.J., to Litchfield County in Connecticut. They are uncannily adept at surviving the winter, but most have a breaking point. That point may have been reached this year
“The lethal temperature for the woolly adelgid is minus 4 or 5 degrees Fahrenheit,” said Richard S. Cowles, a scientist with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, a state research center. “I was cheering a couple of days ago because most of the adelgids will be dying from the temperatures we saw.”
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Texas Tree Care Company Reports Increase Revenues of Approx. $200,000 Since Adding Mauget in 2016
A Texas tree care company who became Mauget certified early in 2016 reported to Ann Hope, Mauget’s western sales representative, that since introducing Mauget Technology into their business in 2016, they have experienced an increase in revenues of approximately $200,000.00. Previously this company had worked with several other tree injection systems offered by other companies. They were not happy with the results they were getting and voiced concerns regarding the tree damage that these systems produced including the insertion of many plugs into trees that were supposed to hold materials into the trees. |
New York City Mapped All of its Trees and Calculated the Economic Benefits of Every Single One.
Public spaces, squares, and parks inu New York City are administered by the city’s Department of Parks & Recreation (NYC Parks).In recent years, the agency has been responsible for creating new programs to help children, youth and adults be aware of the importance of caring for
their urban landscape.One of these programs is a TreesCount! which in 2015 gathered 2,300 volunteers to learn about the trees in their environment, what state they are in, what care they need, what their measurements are, and how they benefit the surrounding community, etc.For months, they walked the streets of the five boroughs together with a group of monitors who previously trained them to recognize what trees they were studying and their characteristics.
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More than 40 percent of California has emerged Dinotefuran a punishing drought that covered the whole state a year ago, federal drought-watchers said Thursday, a stunning transformation caused by an unrelenting series of storms in the North that filled lakes, overflowed rivers and buried mountains in snow.The weekly drought report by government and academic water experts showed 42 percent of the state free from drought. This time last year, 97 percent of the state was in drought.
Southern California, also receiving welcome rain from the storms, remains in drought but has experienced a dramatic reduction in the severity. Just 2 percent of the state, a swath between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, remains in the sharpest category of drought that includes drying wells, reservoirs and streams and widespread crop losses. Forty-three percent of the state was in that direst category this time a year ago. |
Giant Sequoia ‘Tunnel Tree’ in California Is Toppled by Storm
Tony Tealdi, a California state park ranger, at the fallen Pioneer Cabin tree on Monday.
A giant ancient sequoia with a hollowed-out tunnel that drew thousands of visitors each year in California toppled over on Sunday during heavy rains, according to a nonprofit group.
The Pioneer Cabin tree was “barely alive,” according to a volunteer at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park, about 90 miles east of Sacramento, and it was not immediately clear what would become of the sequoia.
The base of the tree (there was no immediate information on its height) was carved out in the 1880s, and it became a tourist attraction. Cars, once they became common, were allowed to drive through it, but in recent years, the tunnel was accessible only to hikers on a 1.5-mile loop through the park, according to the United States Forest Service.
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Mauget Distributor shares a Family visit through the giant sequoia, "The Famous Wawona Tree".
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Jim Cortese, TIPCO in Knoxville Tennessee, a long time valued Mauget distributor shared a family photo of a visit to the famous giant sequoia tree , "Wawona Tree." that stood in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, Circa 1923,
Pictured here are his Grandmother, Beulah Slagle, sitting on hood of car with sister Nellie next to her on left, their mother, Jim’s great grandmother and Jim's Granny Kincaid, is the lady in white hat. in the Mariposa Grove at Yosemite National Park.
The famous "Wawona Tree", stood in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California.Thanks Jim for sharing this wonderful memory with us all..READ MORE ABOUT THIS EXPERIENCE |
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