Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-05 | Page 5 | Insects Cause Heavy Losses in Forests

Insects Cause Heavy Losses in F orests BkX .TRAIN CISCO,1 taai.. Aug Ry A. P.) Th protection f forest for-est and foreat product from In-aect In-aect Is of erarcely ) Importance , than thlr protection from fire. say th foreat service. United Btate department of agriculture, la a atatement taiued here. Loeaes due to insect attack upon living trees and crude, finished an) utlt-Iced utlt-Iced forest products sre esttmsted bv the forest service at 9130,000,00 annually. The Weatern pine beetle, the gyp-ry gyp-ry moth, the cheitnut blight and the whit pine blister rust ar th most damaalng of th Insects and diseases which are now attacking the t rees and forest prod ic t a, ac-eordtag ac-eordtag to the forest service. "Pv far the most serious menace of disease to foreat crops st the present time lies In the imported epidemic." states the forest service: serv-ice: "Th chestnut blight, import -i ed from eastern Asia on nursery stock In the early nineties, has all but exterminated this useful tree throughout Its northern range. Quarantines of foreign tree nursery stork, tha only effective meens of preventing such diseases, hav only recentlv been out In force. The I most Important example of this (vps of dleeue la the white pine blister met. Introducer from Ku-rope Ku-rope within the laat tweitv yea ra. It Is now widespread ihroufh the t.nMhern ranfe of the eastern white l'lne. snd has recently been found extensively In British Columbia and. to a limited extent. In U'ash-Injrton U'ash-Injrton on the weatern white pine. The eery exletence of the western white and susjsr pine forests U threatened.