HWA

Here's what the HWA (Hemlock Wooly Adelgid) is doing to our forest. Have you noticed?
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Photojournal of naturalist, photographer and writer, Fred First from Floyd County in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Started in the spring of 2002, a year when Fred's morning musings in an unexpected sabbatical from an unsatisfying career gave rise to his first book, Slow Road Home. Book two will include many of the digital landscapes and natural history images he has posted at Fragments. Check the sidebar for links to some of his image galleries, his book website, and more.

Labels: PhotoImage, Potpourri
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Oh, yes, everytime I'm out in western NC, I see more of the effects.
First the elms, then the chestnuts, more recently the southern pine beetle explosion, and now this!!!
The best way to kill a cocktail party conversation that I know is to discuss the waves of pests and pathogens that are ravaging or are poised to ravage our woodlands. Emerald Ash Borer, Sudden Oak Death, Asian Longhorn Beetle, and soon one gets the impression that all that will remain are hickories - I've not heard of anything that devastates them - and invasives.
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