madgardener wrote:
I got this from Spunkie, I want to get hold of the Agricultural department
and follow up some inquiries but I had to post this to get a feed
back......thanks in advance.
madgardener
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I'm glad the area is recovering. Have you heard anything about the mulch
coming thru Louisiana? Will they mulch the downed trees there too?

Heres what was posted:

FW: [Fwd: Buyer beware!]If you use mulch around your house be very careful
about buying mulch this year. After the hurricane in New Orleans many trees
were blown over. These trees were then turned into mulch and the state is
trying to get rid of tons and tons of this mulch to any state or company who
will come and haul it away. So it will be showing up in Home Depot and Lowes
at dirt cheap prices with one huge problem; Formosan Termites will be the
bonus in many of those bags. New Orleans is one of the few areas in the
country were the Formosan Termites has gotten a strong hold and most of the
trees blown down were already badly infested with those termites. Now we may
have the worst case of transporting a problem to all parts of the country
that we have ever had. These termites can eat a house in no time at all and
we have no good control against them, so tell your friends that own homes to
avoid cheap mulch and know where it came from.

Here's the link:

Click he LSU AgCenter . Formosan Subterranean Termites Portal

http://www.agctr.lsuhttp://www.agctr.lsu/
edu/en/environment/insects/Termites/formosan_termites/

----- Original Message -----

It's not just mulch from NO folks. I live in Rita hit SW Louisiana and
we lost a lot of trees, I would say 60% of those in our area. All were
ground up by FEMA at diverse locations. Most of our oak trees were
infested with Formosan termites before the storm. I lost a 400 yo white
oak from my front yard. Know for certain the Formosans were in the tree,
it got ground up too.

George