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From YouTube: News Update - Hemlock Restoration Initiative (Dec. 2016)
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Last year, the Hemlock Restoration Initiative released a predatory beetle to fight the Hemlock Woolly Adelgids in 17 locations across Buncombe County. In this news update we'll join them in Montreat in at one of these locations to get an update on their progress.
A
You
you
so
we're
here
with
the
montreat
land
care
committee,
to
monitor
for
some
hemlock,
woolly,
adelgid,
predator
beetles,
that
we
assisted
them
to
release
in
the
town
of
maan
Street
in
the
fall
and
winter
of
2015.
We
hope
to
find
leribeus
beetles
in
the
majority
of
the
sites
where
we
released
them
last
October
and
we
don't
suspect
that
we
will
be
able
to
find
them
in
all
locations,
but
our
methods
for
monitoring
are
fairly
crude.
A
So
as
long
as
we
get
a
few,
we
know
that
there's
plenty
more
out
there
that
we
just
can't
access.
When
you
see
the
people
with
the
sticks
and
the
beach
sheets
or
umbrellas
they're,
actually
hitting
the
branches
of
hemlock
trees
to
see
what
falls
down
from
the
trees.
So
the
beatles
have
come
up
from
the
ground.
A
We
at
this
point
can
only
really
rely
on
chemical
treatment
to
keep
our
hemlock
trees
alive
and
so
we're
hoping
that
over
time,
these
beetles
will
allow
us
to
wean
our
trees
off
of
the
chemicals
and
be
a
more
natural
and
balanced
solution
to
this
hemlock,
woolly,
adelgid
problem
Larrick
obeah.
Some
agreements
is
a
smaller
than
a
sesame
seed,
size
beetle,
that
comes
from
the
Pacific
Northwest
and
as
a
predator
of
the
hemlock
woolly
adelgid
out
in
states
of
Washington
and
Oregon
and
Canada,
and
we
have
an
adult
adhere.
A
That's
been
destroying
all
of
our
hemlock
trees,
but
we
don't
have
those
predators
that
are
keeping
those
adelgid
numbers
in
check.
So
by
introducing
some
of
those
predators
from
out
west,
they
can
establish
here
on
our
hemlock
trees,
multiply
and
spread,
and
we
are
hoping
that
they
will
help
us
to
reduce
the
overall
hemlock,
woolly
adelgid
population.
That
is
putting
stress
on
our
hemlock
trees,
we're
just
getting
started,
but
I
would
say
that
we
found
one
on
our
second
attempt.
So
that's
pretty
darn
good.
A
We
have
a
lot
more
trees
to
look
at,
but
so
far
in
our
monitoring.
For
this
year
we
have
found
two
Beatles
at
every
location
where
we
have
looked
so
that's
17,
7
out
of
the
14
stands
that
we've
monitored.
We
have
found
Beatles
at
all.
Seven
of
those
stands
so
so
far
this
fall
things
are
really
promising,
which
is
a
great
relief,
especially
when
you
think
about
the
impacts
that
fire
has
had.
None
of
the
stands
that
we
have
been
working
on
have
been
affected
by
fire.
A
The
drought
has
prevented
us
from
being
able
to
move
ahead
with
some
of
our
chemical
treatments
this
year,
but
the
Beatles
are
thriving.
We
found
them
in
the
Asheville
watershed
which
are
really
remote,
Carolina,
hemlock,
bluffs
and
so,
and
we
found
them
on
properties
adjacent
to
the
places
where
we've
released
them,
which
is
fabulous.
That
means
that
they
are
finding
new,
hemlocks
and
moving
on
their
own
and
getting
established
there.