{"id":4087,"date":"2011-04-18T01:57:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T05:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2011-04-18T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T18:56:11","slug":"morning-read-alien-invasions-threaten-ny-vt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/04\/18\/morning-read-alien-invasions-threaten-ny-vt\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Alien invasion(s) threaten NY, VT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20110417\/NEWS02\/110416022\/Biologists-plan-cope-ecological-emergencies-caused-by-invasive-pests-disease?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE\">Burlington Free Press<\/a> has a great, big-picture look at the threat of invasive organisms, as a growing number of non-native plants and animals spread closer to our borders.\u00a0 Writer Candace Page begins with a what-if:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The emerald ash borer, an invading insect from Asia, spreads into the state from the Midwest. One hundred million ash trees die.<\/p>\n<p>Or  chronic wasting disease, a fatal illness, is confirmed in a wild  Vermont whitetail deer. To keep the disease from spreading, teams of  shooters kill most of the deer in a 300-square-mile area around the sick  animal.<\/p>\n<p>Or the Asian longhorned beetle is found in a  Green Mountain woodlot. At best, hundreds or thousands of trees are cut  down to eradicate the bug. At worst, the state\u2019s maple-dominated forests  are in deep peril.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Page points out that Massachusetts has already spent more than $60 million to eradicate Asian beetles.\u00a0 And she notes that huge policy questions remain as biologists wrestle with the question of how (or if) to fight these invaders.<\/p>\n<p>And just when you thought the list of invaders couldn&#8217;t get any more obnoxious, we now have wild hogs pushing into the Empire state.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/centralny.ynn.com\/content\/top_stories\/539961\/invasive-wild-hogs-move-into-new-york\/\">This from YNN in Syracuse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Very smart. Can be very elusive,&#8221; said Paul Curtis, Wildlife Specialist at Cornell University.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re strong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve got four inch razor-sharp tusks,&#8221; Curtis said. &#8220;They can be very aggressive and knock a person down and gore them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I thought zebra mussels were bad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burlington Free Press has a great, big-picture look at the threat of invasive organisms, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4818,5669],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}