people's fear of trees has increased across the board since Katrina. It becam imediatly harder to convince people that their trees will not kill them in their sleep. When you mention the value of the shade, they shrug and say they have airconditioning. I can only hope that the energy prices going up will temper that false security from a very hot and dangerous sun. It became very difficult to explain how a solid tree will actually protect your home from storms, especially a tree that proved itself in Katrina.
Do you know how the processing of all that wood has been? Have they been setting up mills around. is it going to the pulp mills to process along with those factory pines they grow down there? I saw in Mississippi they had set up huge burn piles with big fans blowing on them, are they still doing that?.
