WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-Renewed Concerns Over Invasive Beetle
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Burlington, Vermont - May 22, 2009
Summer brings renewed concerns about the Asian longhorned beetle. The invasive pest has an appetite for maple trees, and has devastated entire forests in Massachusetts. So far, Vermont and New Hampshire have escaped the invasion.
But the concern is that the bugs will be transported here in firewood carried by campers. As a precaution, New Hampshire next month will ban out-of-state firewood at federal and state-owned campgrounds.
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