<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">From the HOPE mailing list.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">____________</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">1. Alert: Insect pest -- the woolly adelgid -- attacking local native h</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> Posted by: "Greg Smith" </span><a href="mailto:gpsmith@igc.org" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">gpsmith@igc.org</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> greengreg60</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> Date: Wed Oct 7, 2015 6:01 pm ((PDT))</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Friends, neighbors and fellow tree huggers,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">I'm forwarding the alert below from my friend Gabe Popkin, who serves</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">on the Mount Rainier Tree Commission. Gabe also writes a pretty</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">interesting blog, calls contra and square dances, and plays in a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">pretty fun contra dance band (Private Popkin and the Post-Partisan</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Patriots), and while I urge you to check them out, those are subjects</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">for another time.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">You'll see that Gabe is raising the alarm about woolly adelgid, an</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">insect that is attacking and that can kill native hemlock</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">trees. He's also offering advice and help.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Best,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Greg</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">****</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Gabe's Alert</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Hi folks,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">One of our best local trees, the eastern hemlock, is under attack</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">from a tiny insect, the hemlock woolly adelgid.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">The adelgid is a serious pest that infests only hemlock trees and is</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">almost always deadly to the tree if no action is taken. It's</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">recognizable by the white fluff it makes on the undersides of hemlock needles.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">You can see photos</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">at: </span><a href="http://na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/pest_al/hemlock/hwa05.htm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">http://na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/pest_al/hemlock/hwa05.htm</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">I've seen it on several hemlock trees around town, and it moves</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">around very easily so it will probably soon be on all our city's</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">hemlock trees if it's not already.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Hemlock itself is an evergreen tree. It's kind of like a pine or</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">spruce but with smaller needles and smaller cones. (It's not related</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">to the plant that supposedly killed Socrates.) Hemlock is not one of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">our most common trees in Mount Rainier, but it grows in a number of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">yards around town and in Brentwood, and it is native to this region.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Fortunately there is a chemical treatment for adelgid that is highly</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">effective, long-lasting (several years at least if done right) and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">inexpensive. If you have an infested hemlock tree I highly encourage</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">you to hire an arborist to apply this treatment. It's much cheaper</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">than having your tree cut down, and your tree will be able to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">continue providing you and your neighbors all the various benefits</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">that urban trees provide -- shade, clean air, reduced stormwater</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">runoff, carbon storage, and so on. Hemlock in particular also</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">provides unique habitat for several kinds of migratory birds as well</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">as various insects.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">If you have a tree that you think might be a hemlock but are unsure,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">or if you have a hemlock you want inspected for possible adelgid, I'm</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">happy to come check it out.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">I can also recommend someone who can treat the tree if needed.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Email me at: <mailto:</span><a href="mailto:gabepopkin@yahoo.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">gabepopkin@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Please forward this to nearby listservs and anyone you know in Mount</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Rainier or surrounding towns who has hemlocks in their yard. Again,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">this problem is totally treatable and I'd hate for us to lose more</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">trees, especially hemlocks.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Lastly, small shameless but hopefully informative plug, you can read</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">more about the ecology of hemlock and the threat that adelgid poses</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">in an op-ed I wrote last winter:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/opinion/cities-as-havens-for-trees" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/opinion/cities-as-havens-for-trees</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Thank you for helping keep Mount Rainier's trees alive and healthy.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Gabe</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Mount Rainier Tree Commission</span><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br></span></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="370" style="font-size:13.6px;width:369.9pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none"><tbody><tr style="height:26.5pt"><td width="71" style="width:70.8pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:26.5pt"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B_WsXUJf7Td7cW5GNFR1clgzTGs&revid=0B_WsXUJf7Td7QXhJelRwNUpLSXNLWGlVK3RpRTJZKzd0S28wPQ" width="96" height="41"><br></td><td width="299" style="width:299.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:26.5pt"><p style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="color:blue;font-family:georgia;font-size:10pt">Sarah
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