Honeybees will seek moisture anywhere, including puddles filled with cow urine.

Before (or after) we get drawn into the emotional diatribe in the video, it may be useful to understand who or what this individual has chosen to work for.

Paul Staments has joined the AAAS- Lemelson invention ambassadors association, which is run by the american association for the advancement of science. The AAAS continually promotes the idea of man made climate change and salvation through genetically engineered crops. The doctrines of the United Nations form much of the basis for AAAS's agenda.

Paul Staments ideas about deforestation are consistent with the U.N. agenda. This agenda refers to humans as a scourge and disease, while promoting reducing human populations. Bill Gates seems to be the chief hero of the AAAS.

The AAAS publishes articles in Lancaster Farming newspaper every week promoting genetically modified crops.

You may be asking yourself what any of the above information has to do with bees and orchards. I would argue that there are plenty of native pollinators out there. Besides, we need deforestation in order to have orchards in the first place.

The U.N. which AAAS is working with, seeks to remove the right of landowners to use private property, to tax us for exhaling CO2, to remove our right to life and liberty and replace it with U.N. managed and government goon enforced Bio-Preserves, and virtually extinct human beings.

I come to this forum partially to avoid politics, generally, and am really sick of threads being hijacked for expressing political diatribes, particularly on the climate change issue, where that horse has been beaten to death here and thoroughly composted.

Not to say I haven't been guilty of the same sin, but maybe I've come to see the light. People come here to learn about fruit trees and not to be politically enlightened.

It is you that continues to invoke partisanship.

If you actually read my post, you would see that I am concerned about attacks on property rights. This issue is directly related to fruit growing and orchards.

Are we not in fact partisan in our continual belief that we can grow our own food? Yet this very action is what is targeted by the groups I described.

suggested reading : codex alimentarius

My problem is issues like BMSB not my dreadful NYS bureaucracy or any other government interference as far as growing fruit.

If you were talking about some specific legislation being proposed to interfere with your orcharding, I could understand your point.

Harvestman,

If an infestation of voles had taken residence in one of your orchards, I would give you a heads up. In this same way I am trying to inform you and others.

However, I'd like to see a serious effort to reduce human population to reduce the need to expand agriculture. I do think the planet needs to protect and expand wilderness. Like you, I don't think this should ever be done by taking land or even land use options from private owners without fair compensation.

Examples of what could result from the NY declaration on forests:

Bans on cutting firewood on state owned lands.

Moratorium on land clearing for agricultural use - expensive forest survey required.

Fungicide usage banned due to effects on beneficial forest fungi.

Regional surveys completed with the help of NGO's and their minions. Completed survey shows high value forests leading to further restrictions on agricultural development.

Black-knot infested hedgerows declared off limits for clearing due to researched value in edge forest habitat.

Forest insect infestation results from global trade. Restrictions placed on transport of firewood and nursery products including fruit wood.

Spraying of insecticides banned within 1/4 mile of "high value forest" ...orchards shut down or become not economically viable.

*** The teeth are revealed through administrative law. ***

says the open minded fellow with an omnipotent grasp of climate science