NH to chop down red pines to slow insect attack By KATHY
McCORMACK The Associated Press | November 24,2012 This stand of
red pines is going to be cut down at Bear Brook State Park in
Allenstown, N.H. CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire forestry
officials plan to remove about 120 acres of red pine trees from
a state park this winter to slow the spread of an aggressive
insect that’s destroyed thousands of the trees in southern New
England. The nearly microscopic brown insect is called red pine
scale and was detected at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown in
August. It’s the first documented case of the insect in New
Hampshire, though the bug has been a longtime headache in
Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, which have been
losing the trees for years. Parts of New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania also have battled red pine scale. “We’re just going
to try to cut it all out and hope that it doesn’t spread,” said
Kyle Lombard, forest health program coordinator for New
Hampshire’s Division of Forests and Lands.