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Friday, September 4, 2015
Deforestation
It seem some of the worldwide problems like climate change and its cousin deforestation are coming home here to our home on Oak Hill. Think of places like the Amazon Basin and the rapidly disappearing tropical rainforest. Here, in our woods, it's not rapacious loggers but a fungus that causes Oak Wilt. Last year we lost several huge white oaks. This year the total is seven. I'm sick about it as you can understand. And Lily is worried as well.....
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Fun shot Ray. I have seen some big ones dying
ReplyDeleteThat is a delightful photo.
ReplyDeleteHa!
ReplyDeleteGood one. Yea, that "Oak Wilt" does in lawns , too!
I saw that somewhere else, too. It's really fun, and you've made the very best of it. :-)
ReplyDeleteOMG, I almost snorted my coffee with that picture.
ReplyDeleteGrin
ReplyDeleteStill laughing. That's a real big problem.
ReplyDelete3rd from left, the dog looks like my last lab. Sigh!
I hope the Oak Wilt stays in your part of the State as you know our woods are mainly Burr Oak with a few Red Oak and some White Oak. Cute picture:)
ReplyDelete:-)) Have a blessed weekend.
ReplyDeleteCarla
:-)))) still laughing.
We lost a lot of Live Oaks here in our town several years ago. Its a shame when that stuff gets started. Oaks are so beautiful. we have a lot of them in the middle of the streets.
ReplyDeleteLoved all the dogs waiting for the last tree. I am an unashamed tree hugger. Pine bores ate us up in Florida.
ReplyDelete:)
ReplyDeleteThe photo made me smile. :) I don't like it when we lose trees, we really need them for the environment.
ReplyDeleteHa! Guess you need to get Lily a hydrant, since those aren't susceptible to fungus. However you might need to worry if Lily is hiking her leg!
ReplyDeleteI'd be sick about it, too.. The oak is kind of the "sacred" tree of my lifeline. Mighty, long living, and majestic. My brother, in the St. Cloud area lives on a beautifully wooded oak lot, and he too, has been hit with the oak wilt. So unfortunate.
ReplyDeleteI like that you are able to create smiles despite the sad fate of the trees, though. :) Say hello to Lily for us!
oh, do please keep it up north! i'd cry if i lost any of my huge post oaks (a type of white oak that grows here.)
ReplyDeleteSo sad about the tree losses.
ReplyDeleteI have not heard about the oak wilt. So sad! Here in my area we don't have too many white oaks but I have seen red oaks die from bacterial leaf scorch. It does make one ill to lose such wonderful trees. I hope a cure can be found soon.
ReplyDeleteThere are always vehicle tires!
ReplyDeleteIt is sad. We have lost trees beginning with the tornado in '08. It weakened some and the bugs and dry weather has finished many off. I can't imagine a world without trees.
Thanks for visiting.
Cute picture. We lost an apple tree a couple of winters ago and I am still upset about it.
ReplyDeleteI had not heard about Oak Wilt -- it sounds horrible. When I lived in KY I had some wonderful large white oaks on my property. So I looked up online the tree situation in KY and many species are in trouble. Sad, sad, sad. -- barbara
ReplyDeleteThat is a hilarious picture! I haven't heard of Oak Wilt but here the ash trees have been invaded by an imported bug, the Emerald Ash Borer. That actual insect doesn't harm the tree but the larvae pore holes in the trunk and pupate inside and cut off all nutrition to the branches. My ash tree in front of my house is dead, and over 300 ash trees through my town are going to have to be cut down.
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