Tag: Charlie Burnham
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Annual Letter to Members, 2010
In 2011, we will continue to work with the Department of Conservation and Recreation and its Urban Park Bureau. We will also continue our partnership with Site Supervisor Erica Aubin and former Site Supervisor and DCR administrator Kevin Hollenbeck. We hope you will share our pleasure in the accomplishments of 2010 and our hopes for…
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Meeting Minutes: November 11, 2008
Next Meeting: Tuesday December 2, 2008 at 7:30 The November meeting was unusual. We had been assured that, even though it was Veteran’s Day, the Emerson Community Center would be open. But it wasn’t, and the meeting was held in 40 degree temperatures in the parking lot! Nonetheless it was a great meeting. Present were…
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Charlie Burnham Report: November, 2008
DCR Forester Charlie Burnham visited Hemlock Gorge in November, 2008. Here are his reports to the Friends: I went to the gorge to evaluate it as a possible release site for a different predatory beetle, Laricobius nigrinus. I noticed that the hemlocks were in two very different states of health which I can’t explain. Some…
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Charlie Burnham Report: May 12, 2008
The Friends had news on May 12, 2008 from State Forester Charlie Burnham in regard to the Hemlock Woolly Adelgids and our release of ladybugs. Here is what he wrote: I haven’t been there to look for beetles in a couple of years, but this past winter some of them showed up an another location…
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Report on the Adelgids and Ladybugs in Hemlock Gorge
Final Report Pseudoscymnus tsugae Release Hemlock Gorge 2001-2005 Background: The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) (formerly the Department of Environmental Management) was approached by the Friends of Hemlock Gorge regarding the possible release of the predatory ladybird beetle (Pseudoscymnus tsugae) for the control of an infestation of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) (Adelges tsugae) at…
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State of Infestation
On November 8, 2005 state forester Charlie Burnham contacted the Friends and made the following report on the adelgid infestation: “I was at the Gorge last week and will write up a summary of what I was and have it to you sometime next week. Overall things look good but I have noticed the start…
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Governor Romney merges the former MDC into a new Department of Conservation and Recreation
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s proposal to eliminate the Metropolitan District Commission has been accepted by the Legislature and signed into law as part of the fiscal Year 2004 budget. However, the Metropolitan Park Commission’s spirit lives on. A new Department of Conservation and Recreation has been created in the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. It…
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Hopeful Adelgid News: The Ladybugs may be having an effect
It’s been more than a year since the release of the first ladybugs. We still don’t have an official opinion from forester Charlie Burnham on their impact. but at the August picnic, we all toured the site and inspected the hemlocks. What we saw made us cautiously optimistic. Although several trees have died, and evidence…
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2001 Ladybug Release
May 2, 2001 The long struggle to save the trees in Hemlock Gorge reached a turning point at 2:30 on Wednesday, May 2, 2001. At that time Massachusetts state forester Charlie Burnham and site supervisor Kevin Hollenbeck released the first of 10,000 ladybugs grown during the winter to combat the Woolly Adelgid. The insects, black,…
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Adelgid Update: March 18, 2001
The Boston Globe ran a nice article on the efforts of the Friends to combat the woolly adelgid. The online version is no longer available. REGIONWild woolly adelgids attack hemlock trees By John Laidler, Globe Correspondent, 3/18/2001 http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/077/west/Wild_woolly_adelgids_attack_hemlock_trees+.shtml This story ran on page 1 of The Boston Globe’s Globe West section on 3/18/2001.Copyright 2001 Globe…
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Hemlock Gorge on Channel 4
Channel 4 Anchor Jack Williams did an op-ed column in the Herald and was contacted by Brian Yates. He filmed a story in Hemlock Gorge on Sunday with Brian and Charlie Burnham. It ran Sunday September 19 on the 6:30 and 11:00 o’clock news on Channel 4. Video tapes of the broadcast will be shown…
