trees

a wonderful part of the forests in the mountains are the eastern hemlocks----from a distance their dark green, almost black needles are an excellent contrast to the oaks and other hardwoods---and there's nothing quite so magical as the deep shade of old-growth hemlock----but now they are being decimated by the hemlock wooly adelgid, which is sorta like an aphid----they suck the life out of the trees, which are now dying all up and down the appalachians----they have had some success with beetles, but with hundreds of thousands of acres of wilderness, there is no way to treat all the trees----