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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~

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 -----

Tell Spunkie that he's spreading the latest Internet hoax.

Urban Legends
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/termites.asp
Claim: E-mail warns that buying mulch from home improvement stores may
spread the Formosan subterranean termite.

Status: False.

Home Depot does not use any mulch suppliers from the New Orleans area.

The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry imposed a quarantine on
several parishes back in October 2005 specifically to prevent the accidental
movement of Formosan subterranean termite to other areas.

"madgardener" wrote in message
...
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~

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 -----

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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~

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

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


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




"George Shirley" wrote in message
...
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~

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

thanks cat daddy..............I shoulda checked my snopes bookmark but it
sounded so plausable....................
maddie
"cat daddy" wrote in message
...
Tell Spunkie that he's spreading the latest Internet hoax.

Urban Legends
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/termites.asp
Claim: E-mail warns that buying mulch from home improvement stores may
spread the Formosan subterranean termite.

Status: False.

Home Depot does not use any mulch suppliers from the New Orleans area.

The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry imposed a quarantine
on
several parishes back in October 2005 specifically to prevent the
accidental
movement of Formosan subterranean termite to other areas.

MORE BULLSHIT SPREAD BY INTERNET!!!!!!

Comments: The Formosan subterranean termite has long been recognized
as a serious problem in southern Louisiana, so serious in fact that in
October 2005 the state's Department of Agriculture and Forestry
imposed a quarantine on all wood debris from parishes affected by
Hurricane Katrina. The declaration reads, in part, as follows:

The movement of any wood or cellulose material from the named parishes
is prohibited unless either (1) such wood or cellulose material has
been fumigated or otherwise treated for Formosan termites and is
approved for movement by the Commissioner or his designee(s), or (2)
the Commissioner or his designee(s) gives written authorizations for
untreated wood or cellulose material to be moved from the named
parishes.
The ban on removing wood waste from southern Louisiana is also
mentioned in a November 12, 2005 article in USA Today describing
hurricane cleanup operations in greater New Orleans:
In Louisiana, crews haul the waste to one of 150 dumps, transfer
stations and temporary collection sites. Some is buried whole, some
pulverized in giant grinders. Woody vegetation is chipped, then
burned, buried or mulched. No wood waste can leave the state because
it could contain voracious Formosan termites.
So, while it is certainly possible that some Katrina wood debris has
crossed the state line through the negligence or unscrupulousness of
private individuals, Louisiana would be in violation of its own
quarantine rules if it were true that, as claimed in the email, "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."
Statement from Lousiana Dept. of Agriculture & Forestry:

The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Office of
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has quarantines in place in
the Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita affected parishes of
Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Orleans, Plaquemines,
St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa and
Washington.
All woody debris in the quarantined areas is going to an approved
landfill within the designated quarantine area. There are a multitude
of government (state and federal) agencies that are looking at this
debris every day as it is deposited into these landfills. The
contractors mulching and hauling the debris know the regulations and
are abiding by them according to the quarantine requirements.

If there is anyone with knowledge of debris moving out of a quarantine
area, they should contact our 24-hour hotline @ 225-925-3763. These
are serious allegations and will be taken seriously.

Matthew Keppinger
Assistant Commissioner
Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry

In article ,
says...
All woody debris in the quarantined areas is going to an approved
landfill within the designated quarantine area. There are a multitude
of government (state and federal) agencies that are looking at this
debris every day as it is deposited into these landfills. The
contractors mulching and hauling the debris know the regulations and
are abiding by them according to the quarantine requirements.


With the amount of debris in question and seeing the Louisiana
government in action this Fall...I just can't get a warm and fuzzy
feeling generated by your response.
--
Lar

Oh, if only Noah would of been a bit more wise,
he surely would of swatted those two flies.

to email....get rid of the BUGS

"Lar" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...
All woody debris in the quarantined areas is going to an approved
landfill within the designated quarantine area. There are a multitude
of government (state and federal) agencies that are looking at this
debris every day as it is deposited into these landfills. The
contractors mulching and hauling the debris know the regulations and
are abiding by them according to the quarantine requirements.


With the amount of debris in question and seeing the Louisiana
government in action this Fall...I just can't get a warm and fuzzy
feeling generated by your response.
--
Lar

Lar, be serious. The only way a person could get around the quarantine would
be to discreetly pay off public officials. I have NEVER heard of such a
thing actually happening, especially in Louisiana.

Stalk anyone today "cat daddy?"


"cat daddy" wrote in message
...
Tell Spunkie that he's spreading the latest Internet hoax.

Ha! I have gotten Bad Mulch! It was made up of boards from all kinds of
things, maybe some clean mulch in it, but not much. Yeah, if a dollar can
be made from the wood from lousiana, it will be.

And no problems with money and accountability? LOL! Lousiana has a long
history of corruption, of course so do most cities.

--
gloria - only the iguanas know for sure

"glenon" wrote in message
...
Ha! I have gotten Bad Mulch! It was made up of boards from all kinds of
things, maybe some clean mulch in it, but not much. Yeah, if a dollar can
be made from the wood from lousiana, it will be.

And no problems with money and accountability? LOL! Lousiana has a long
history of corruption, of course so do most cities.

Oh come on. That's part of the bible belt. Surely you're not suggesting that
upstanding religious people would be corrupt. :-)

In article ,
says...
Oh come on. That's part of the bible belt. Surely you're not suggesting that
upstanding religious people would be corrupt. :-)


Must of been Yankee carpet-ba, er I mean mulch-baggers
--
Lar

Oh, if only Noah would of been a bit more wise,
he surely would of swatted those two flies.

to email....get rid of the BUGS

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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~

As you know by now, the information was not true. Some of our local TV
stations have been running stories about this lie for weeks. One
"consumer reporter" said this was a vendetta against the large discount
stores (mainly Home Depot) started by a disgruntled ex-employee.
--
Bill R. (Ohio Valley, U.S.A)

Gardening Since 1969

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