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Re: OT - will hemlock lumber hold paint?
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Posted by JOHN HARMON on August 27, 2006 at 21:22:21 from (4.176.93.117):
In Reply to: OT - will hemlock lumber hold paint? posted by Tim in New York on August 27, 2006 at 09:09:58:
The old growth forests of Eastern Hemlock in the Applachian Mt's and elsewhere in the east/s.east are under atack by a tiny non-native sucking insect called HWA or Hemlock Wooly Adelgid and vast areas of this giant of the Evergreen Family are already starting to show the effects of the damage this tiny insect can render. The U.S.D.A. /Forest Service has so far barely given lip service to prevention and erradication of this insect but would rather gather fertile Seed of this often overlooked tree and send the seed to Chile and Brazil for Forest planting. Sort of an Outsourcing attempt of Hem Wood preservation.Hemlock/Fir/Spruce are all of the evergreen Family but each Species has it's own charcteristics. The point is. Wait a while and for a short period of time a large quantity of Hemlock Wood will be readily available and then it will be gone forever as the Chestnut is,unless/unless a prevention which has been applied to some areas of this Hemlock Forest is applied to all our Hemlock forests.This Tree killing insect came here via boat and Container freight it is thought.
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