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POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL SUNDAY, AUGUST 1 ft, 2002 NATION METRO 5A Beetles ravage trees in southern states Damage to timber costs industry millions Th Associated Pr ALBANY, Ga. Dean Wilson has two decades of experience as a forest manager, but it's not enough to protect his trees from the worst Southern pine beetle epidemic in memory. Since the outbreakbegan in 2000, the beetles have destroyed millions of dollars of timber in northern Georgia, South Carolina, western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee and northeastern Alabama. With no effective chemical controls, the only option for landowners is to try to salvage the wood. The bugs, about half as long as a grain of rice, have forced landowners to dump diseased trees on an already glutted pulpwood market.

Besides killing the trees, the beetles introduce a fungus known as blue stain that makes the trees unsuitable for lumber. Homeowners in Atlanta's northern suburbs, of Marietta, Roswell and Alpheretta have had Logging on Georgia Forestry Commission: www.gc.srare.gd.us U.S. Forest Servicer wvtwfs.fed.us to hire crews to remove infested trees from their yards. "It's heartbreaking to have to cut down trees that I planted 20 years ago," said Wilson, who manages 26,000 acres of trees at Berry College, near Rome, and has cut about 1,000 acres in three years. "In some cases, we're not able to see the wood because it's too far gone by the time we get to it," he said.

$200 million In losses Losses in South Carolina alone are expected to reach $200 million by the end of the summer, said Andy Boone, chief of forest health for the state Forestry Commission. Southern pine beetle outbreaks are often linked to droughts that weaken the trees; Georgia and much of the rest of the Southeast are in the fifth year of a drought. The Associated Press Dean Wilson, forest manager at Berry College, looks at the sawdust left by Southern pine beetles after an Infestation of a pine tree on the campus of Berry College In Rome, on Wednesday. "The outbreak that started in Southern pine beetle." 2000 on a regional basis is probably the worst we've ever seen," said Wesley Nettleton, an entomologist With the U.S. Forest Service in Atlanta.

The outbreak peaked in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina last year and intensified this year in South Carolina and Georgia, he said. "Thousands of acres have been killed," Nettleton said. "You drive up Interstate 75 and all you see is dead pine trees, killed by the The beetles have appeared as far north as New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as far west as Arizona and as far south as Mexico and Honduras. This year, there have been reports of the beetles in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Female beetles bore through the bark, lay eggs and build a network of tunnels that block the flow of nutrients from the needles to the roots.

As the larvae develop) into adults, they feed on moist bark and then tunnel out to attack other trees. Police officer killed at WTC may have led a double life DNA to tell if victim had 2 additional sons The Associated Press NEW YORK A police officer who died at the World Trade Center left a wife and four children and, says another woman, two more children she secretly bore him. Officer Liam Callahan's wife, Joan, only learned about the other woman when Kimberly Diaz applied for death benefits last fall, newspapers reported, Since then, Joan Callahan has provided Diaz with DNA evidence, taken from her children that could help Diaz prove that the Port Authority officer also fathered her twd sons. The results will be com pared to DNA samples taken from Diaz's children. Joan Callahan's lawyer, Edward Hayes, said the DNA tests should be ready next week.

The remains of the 44 year old officer have not been found. lithe DNA matches, Diaz's sons, 2 year old Kjeran and 4 month old Liam, would be eligible for their father's Social Security benefits and victims' assistance compensation. Diaz, 34, who worked in the Port Authority's communications department, is on leave. She met Callahan four years ago at the Journal Square PATH station in Jersey City where they both worked, but wJ II I IIW iA aj I phone call away jJitftftttatrflHtMmrfnl Computer A www.ComputerPlutUSA.com 845 298 1399 SALES SERVICE 167,1 Rt. 9, Lafayette Plaza Wappingers Falls ADVERTISEMENT Refinance Now! Interest Rates are Going Up! New York Take advantage of low rates and save thousands of dollars.

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"My doctor told me I got pregnant the day before he died," she told the News. Callahan spent the night at her house, leaving at 6 a.m. for work. "He said he would call me later and that he loved me," she said. The officer told his wife, a 43 year old nurse, that he was spend ing the night at a Port Authority police station in Jersey City, so he would be ready for the early morningmorning shift, according to the Post.

Sept. 12 was the couple's 20th wedding anniversary. METRONEWS METROPOLITAN NEW YORK Pelvic bone found on roof near grqund zero NEW YORK A construction worker found a pelvic bone on a rooftop about two blocks away from ground zero, police said. A construction worker found the bone about 3 p.m. Friday in safety netting on the roof of 90 West just south of where the World Trade Center once stood.

Investigators said the bone appeared to be from a female pelvis, and it may have been thrown onto the building by the force of the explosions during the Sept. 11 attacks. The bone is about 6 inches wide and 7 inches long. It was taken to the medical examiner's office for further analysis and identification. New York Times to begin work on new building NEW YORK A state judge Jias cleared the way for construction of The New York Times' new 52 story Times Square headquarters by refusing to stop the state from condemning 11 prop erties in the area.

"We're ready to move forward now without delay," said Charles Gargano, chairman of the Empire State Development Corp. On Friday state Supreme Court Judge Martin Schoenfeld ruled that in the mterest of expediency, all condemnation projects should not have to await all possible appeals." Gary Barnett, the owner of one of the 11 properties involved, went to court to stop the building set to go up opposite the Port Authori ty Bus Terminal on Eighth Avenue between 40th and 41st Street, Schoenfeld said in his ruling if Barnett wins on appeal, a stay of the project could quickly be issued. 2 separate shootings In Brooklyn Injure 9 NEW YORK Nine people were hospitalized early Saturday after two separate shootings in Brooklyn, police said. In one of the incidents, five men attending a party at a building on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights were shot as they were leaving just before 2 am, police said. It was not known what type of party it was, and the names of the victims were not immediately available, said police spokeswoman Det.

Carolyn Chew. Police did not know whether the shots were fired by one person or by a group, she said. One of the men, a 21 year old, was in serious condition at Kings County Hospital with a gunshot wound to his torso, police said. The other four were taken to area hospitals and were in stable condition. In a separate, unrelated shooting at about 1:40 a.m., four men were wounded on Decatur Avenue in the Bushwick section, including a 16 year old who was shot in the head, police said.

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