![]() ![]() ![]() Spongy moth populations will eventually crash. I saw firsthand how devastating it is in some spots,” said Engelken. I was up there doing fieldwork last year. “I know this year we’ve seen a lot of reports of really high populations up in Northern Wisconsin. Right now, the insects are at a peak outbreak of their 10-year cycle. This photo was taken this week in the Valhalla parking area off of County Road C in the Washburn District of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. USDA Forest Service Leafless trees show the effects of spongy moth caterpillars that have eaten most of the leaf tissue. In Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, the Washburn and Lakewood-Laona districts have been hit particularly hard by the caterpillars. It just adds another stressor,” said Engelken.Įngelken says a couple of years of that stress can lead to those trees dying. ![]() When they eat trees that are already being stressed out like this summer where we’ve had a very dry spring and summer, the trees are already not their healthiest. During outbreaks, they’ll eat all the leaves off the entire tree. “Spongy moth caterpillars will eat voraciously at lot of the leaves. He says they start eating leaves almost as soon as trees push them out in the spring. Patrick Engelken is an entomologist in Forest Health and Protection with the U.S. But during that time, they can do a lot of damage to deciduous trees. They’re usually around for about seven weeks before they transform into moths. Spongy moth caterpillars are about 2.5 inches long with five pairs of blue dots and six pairs of red dots that run down their back in rows. Instead, MacKinnon said she is upset that the city is telling residents the trees are being removed for insurance purposes.Ten counties that make up the Chequamegon Nicolet National Forest are under quarantine for spongy moth caterpillars. If you're saying we're environmentally friendly or this is an environmental impact you actually don't know that much about the environment and how this works."Ī group of Burbank residents who live on Niagara have started a petition and are working to save the trees, which they say haven't been maintained by the city resulting in images like these from recent storms.Ī tree branch destroyed MacKinnon's car, but she doesn't want the trees removed. "It's going to take these new trees 50-plus years to get to this point. "These trees absorb five times more carbon dioxide than a smaller tree," said MacKinnon. In the face of evolving urban forestry science and climate changes, we've realized that these magnificent trees have outgrown our residential spaces." Their recent losses in storms highlight the necessity for our community's safety. In a statement, Burbank's director of parks and recreation said: "With a heavy heart, we acknowledge that our beloved Aleppo pine trees, having reached maturity and weakened by drought, must be replaced. It's sickening," said 17-year resident Eryn Krueger-Mukash. So it came as a shock last week when some of the homes on Niagara received a letter from the city of Burbank that said, starting next month, all of the trees are scheduled be removed. "I can turn off my AC in mid-summer for two-thirds of the day because of the shade of one tree on my house." "The major, major selling point is the mature tree-lined street, and you pay a premium for that," said Dyane MacKinnon, who lives on Niagara Street. The dozens of Aleppo pine trees that line Niagara Street, between Olive Avenue and Hollywood Burbank Airport, are over 100 years old. (KABC) - Residents of a Burbank neighborhood have launched a grassroots effort to save about 77 giant trees after the city announced plans to remove the beloved pines. Residents of a Burbank neighborhood have launched a grassroots effort to save more than 70 giant trees after the city announced plans to remove the beloved pines.īURBANK, Calif. ![]()
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