pine beetles
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Toccoa Ga. USA
Posts: 59
pine beetles
I' ve saw on some of the TV shows and videos, turkeys roosting in bare trees out in the open. They just don' t do that here in north Ga.. They roost in evergreens, the thickest ones they can find. At the present rate there will be no pines left in a few short years, my guess would be 4 or 5 and I don' t know of any reason why the rate would change (except get faster). Is this going on in other places? And do your turks roost in the open?
#3
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: bensalem pa USA
Posts: 172
RE: pine beetles
I agree with Rayc up here they roost in the hardwoods usually on eastern facing slopes. Evergreens come in when the weather is I am originally from Lousiana and I remember the way those blasted beetles would blow through the land![:@] They used to try prescribed burns to stop them that didn' t work very well though.
#4
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Estill Springs TN USA
Posts: 270
RE: pine beetles
We' ve got those little pine killers here in southern TN but the turkeys seem to prefer the hardwoods over the pines anyway. Not very many pines here to start with at least not like you have in GA.
#5
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: pineview GF. USA
Posts: 374
RE: pine beetles
Pine beetles did a number on one of the management areas I hunt in SW Central Fl..they let the pulp wooders in to mop up and get what they could find worth cutting..pine trees dying and falling everywhere. The beetles are in several of the state' s management areas.
#6
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: chiefland Florida USA
Posts: 5,417
RE: pine beetles
they are real bad here in Fla. have been for the past several years.the state doesn' t seem to care if they help stop them or not.
some places in our club woods there are 100" of acers of dead trees.
the birds here seem to like the oaks along the streams.one every so often they will be in a very large pine along the banks.
some places in our club woods there are 100" of acers of dead trees.
the birds here seem to like the oaks along the streams.one every so often they will be in a very large pine along the banks.