On Oct 5, 3:49 pm, Charles wrote:
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 06:10:02 -0400, "George"
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"Charles" wrote in message
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:47:15 -0400, "George"
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"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
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On Oct 4, 9:25 am, "George" wrote:
"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message

Umm, we don't use weed killers on mountain top forests. You guessed
wrong.

I wasn't speaking for what goes on in your neck of the woods but I can
assure you that over here, for the first 4 or 5 years spruce were and
for all I know, still are sprayed with a relative of agent orange.

I was suggesting that some regions were overdosed whilst others were
not dosed or not given enough/too much.

Why would anyone spray herbicides on trees if their intention was not to
kill the trees? And what does this have to do with acid rain, a well
documented environmental disaster?

George

I've read of it being done in the Pacific Northwest. The idea is to
kill the broadleaf plants to let the conifers get started. I guess it
works if done at the proper dosage. The main tree crop there is, or
was back when I knew anything about it, Douglas fir. It is a fire
species, normally grows after a fire and needs full sun.

Fine. That is a specific case. But to suggest that anywhere there is
damage to trees that that means that herbicides was used is ludicrous,
don't you think? I certainly don't.

Yes, it would be completely inappropriate in that kind of forest. I
don't know if they still do it in the PNW or not, it'd been some time
since I've read about it.

Lindane and such are banned in the European Community. I think that
most selective weed killers are too. The whole aspect of forest
management is changing over here. But in the broad leaf forest poor
husbandry has decimated the species bank since before Mark Twain was
writing about iit.

It appears to be the eradication of eagles, hawks, bears, coyotes and
wolves that is the cause of the damage to them.

But as for the raw prawn's definition of ludicrous, did you notice if
he managed to explain how sensible his concept of acid rain damaging
the same forests is in consideration of the state of city parks almost
everywhere else?

Any idea if the grape vines and orange groves in Los Angeles are in a
bad way? Not that that would persuade some people, even if they are
perfectly healthy.

Ho-hum... off to inspect the fields of Mexico.