5-20 NWR Remembering Mt. St. Helens

Over the next several weeks, roughly 17,000 bright green tent-like cardboard traps will be placed in trees and shrubs throughout the state as the Oregon Department of Agriculture goes about the annual process of looking for gypsy moths during the summer months. Here’s Clint Burfett, Manager of ODA’s Pest Prevention and Management Program: "Because this eradication project happened so quickly early on with these detections, our odds of eradicating it are very high. If we had waited and allow the population to increase that it becomes a lot harder to eradicate

Asian Gypsy moths specifically but also the European Gypsy moth. We have traps wherever we know the gypsy moth can survive and wherever we know that there is likelihood of gypsy moth coming in.

 

I sure remember it and I suspect most of you do as well. Do you know what happened on May 18, 1980… That would be 36 years ago? Mount St. Helens erupted and for those of us who were living in the Northwest it was a spectacle we can never forget.