Gypsy moths stripped
WASHINGTON, D.C.
moths stripped an
•ecedented 5.1 million
•s of forest and shade
in 1980. mostly in the
■theastern states, ac
•dmg to U.S. Department
Vgnculture officials,
'he figures, compiled
jh state and federal
>ys in- infested areas,
an eight-fold increase
GEBHART'S | defoliated - the most ever
SANDBLASTING | he said. “Records
. DECTODATiniJ i were 3180 set m Maine,
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Abbottstown, Pa. 17301 § defoliation ever. Outside the
717-259-986* % Northeast, Michigan had
• Water Blasting m five acres stripped. All af
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• Brick & Stone IS Michigan had increases in
Repointing & I damage over last year
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over 1979, according to
William Helms, who is in
charge of national plant
protection and quarantine
programs for USDA’s
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service.
“This is more than two and
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record, set in 1971,” Helms
said. Pennsylvania had
440,500 acres stripped.
“New York led the list
with 2,449,475 acres
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do about gypsy moths,”
Helms said. “We have to tell
them that the time for ef
fective action is in the spring
when the pest is m the
destructive caterpillar
stage. The best thing to do
now is plan for next year.
“Conventional pesticides
are still the most effective
means of control in heavily
infested areas,” he said. “A
lot of state and federal
research and development
work is continuing on
alternative controls, and
progress has been made, but
more work needs to be done
before they can be generally
relied on.”
USDA’s Forest Service
conducts cooperative sup
pression programs with
some of the infested Nor
theastern states to minimize
defoliation and tree mor
tality in high-value forested
areas, he said. State
agencies must request
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Officials will be trying to
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will continue to spiral up
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Sheepmen declare coyote crisis
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
- The predation of sheep by
coyotes and feral dogs has
reached a critical level
according to leaders of the
National Wool Growers
Association.
R. J. Rich, a Burley,
Idaho, sheep rancher and
Chairman of the Board"of
Directors of the NWGA. Rich
told California wool growers
at their annual meeting this
week in Monterey that we
can no longer tolerate the
feeding of millions of dollars
worth of our products to
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favorable or unfavorable
weather, treatment
programs and parasites,
diseases of the caterpillars
and other natural enemies
can all have an impact,
making such prediction
difficult.
over-populated wild species.
Rich also declared that the
loss levels of sheep and
lambs to predators are a
crisis for the nationwide
sheep flock. In additional
comments, the Idaho wool
grower pointed out that the
problem extends from
California to Maine and is no
longer unique to the Western
U.S.
In a letter to President
Jimmy - Carter, the Wool
Grower chief asked for
immediate emergency relief
to reduce predation in areas
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“Isolated infestations
we’ve discovered in
Michigan, Illinois, Virginia,
Washington and other areas,
unless eliminated, could
threaten forested areas in
other parts of the country,
too,” Helms said.
of historic high losses.
Rich admitted sheepmen
have experienced recent
good prices for their
products but that the
ravages of inflation, fuel,
feed and interest costs
required optimizing
production on the nation's
sheep interprice.
The Idaho rancher con
tended that sheepmen must
have more help in slowing
the pace of killings by
predators and dogs. Rich
urged the President give the
predation crisis his im
mediate attention.
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