Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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Vol423 said:
If that quote is accurate, that's pretty harsh to direct that comment at your alma mater.
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I think you can take it two ways. First is the way you did in that Nebraska is a terrible place to coach. The second, and how I personally take it, is that you shouldn’t take a job just for the appeal (ie it’s my alma mater).
 
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walkenvol said:
Was also in CO last week. There’s so many dead pine trees that the next fire there will be very bad IMO. The west side of the continental divide in the Rocky Mountain National Park was devastated with dead trees. According to what I read, the pine beetle is wrecking havoc.
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Most all of our pine and pinon trees survived the Little Bear Fire in 2013, but we didn't realize that many of them had been weakened by the fire. Then we discovered, starting in 2014 and several years after, that pine bark beetles were attacking the weakened trees and killing them. So we lost many trees to the beetles. All you can do is cut them down and burn all the wood in burn piles. Some folks would cut up the trees for firewood, but that only transported the beetles to other areas! There are different species, but our NM adult ones were oblong shaped and black, like this, only larger (30 mm?):
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The good news was that our juniper trees were virtually indestructible. We found that even blackened stumps had new growth coming up from the roots the following year.
 
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Billy Antrim said:
Most all of our pine and pinon trees survived the Little Bear Fire in 2013, but we didn't realize that many of them had been weakened by the fire. Then we discovered, starting in 2014 and several years after, that pine bark beetles were attacking the weakened trees and killing them. So we lost many trees to the beetles. All you can do is cut them down and burn all the wood in burn piles. Some folks would cut up the trees for firewood, but that only transported the beetles to other areas! There are different species, but our NM adult ones were oblong shaped and black, like this, only larger (30 mm?):
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The good news was that our juniper trees were virtually indestructible. We found that even blackened stumps had new growth coming up from the roots the following year.
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Clear out brush, make new dirt. Aspen's and hardwoods grow. Rinse and repeat.
 
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Billy Antrim said:
Most all of our pine and pinon trees survived the Little Bear Fire in 2013, but we didn't realize that many of them had been weakened by the fire. Then we discovered, starting in 2014 and several years after, that pine bark beetles were attacking the weakened trees and killing them. So we lost many trees to the beetles. All you can do is cut them down and burn all the wood in burn piles. Some folks would cut up the trees for firewood, but that only transported the beetles to other areas! There are different species, but our NM adult ones were oblong shaped and black, like this, only larger (30 mm?):
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The good news was that our juniper trees were virtually indestructible. We found that even blackened stumps had new growth coming up from the roots the following year.
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Do you want some cedar trees? I'll gladly give them to you today, for great low low price of free.
 
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