A quick search on google provides multiple hits about the email
rumor spreading about mulch. There is a quarantine in place since
October 3, 2005 to prevent movement of wood products, including
mulch and architectural wood from out of the parishes infested
with the Formosan termite. Please do not feed the hysteria with
false rumors. Quarantine violations should be reported to the La
Dept of Agriculture.
http://www.ldaf.state.la.us/aboutlda...ase.asp?id=542
http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar...h_termites.htm
http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/enviro...r+Stor ms.htm
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...4/ai_n15712979


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elizabeth, Baton Rouge, LA
http://community.webshots.com/user/elott63




"George Shirley" wrote in message
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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