Hi everyone!

Wishing you a happy Halloween... enjoy the time off from our Lego meetings, go and do some trick-or-treating and we'll resume the meetings on Saturday, to get closure on the project and the missions...

Happy Halloween !!!

Looking for other FLL teams

Global Coolers are looking for FLL teams outside Colorado with projects related to effects of climate changes on forests, pine beetle epidemics, or similar topics. Please post your comment here if you are interested in communicating with us.

Dragon, can I get a copy of our lego video before we take it apart into smaller pieces

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Brad w

Cutting Infested Trees

I think we should peel back some bark and if it is infested with pine beetles then you cut down those trees. You can also kill the larva with chemicals.

Solutions Combined

For our project we can combine all of our solutions into our thing. I think it's a good idea because you can make biofuel and furniture to collect money to pay for water or microrganisms. My idea for the project is a lego movie that explains all the solutions and the problem. That makes it so the judges will think we have a great project.

Pine beetle 101

P.B.S. (pine beetle solution) is a liquid that boosts the defense system of a tree. P.B.S. was made by Good Earth R.O.S.E. Care.
Healthy trees have a microorganism that makes a tree uninhabitable for a beetles larvae . P.B.S. has those microorganisms in it that are made in a lab. when a mountain pine beetle senses these microorganisms they go some where else. we can add P.B.S. to the soil of weak trees so they grow stronger.
I think that we should get schools to do fundraisers so the government can afford to spray the trees with P.B.S.

Solution

I have a solution to the Moutain Pine Beetles (MPB), I think we should pour a lot of cold water so that the MPBwould not be able to inject the fungus in the tree or if the tree already has the fungus then we could put in the cold water so that the MPB wouldn't develop more MPB and the tree would have some water.

The Solution For All The Pine Beetles!

Today I was reaserching and found this site that had alot of information on how to repel mountain pine beetles!

These bullet points are from the article.

• solar treatment kills M.P.B.
• droughts are the reason that all the M.P.B. are destroying all the pines(because they get weaker)
• people are thinking of putting plastic shields around them so the sun reflects on
  

      the plastic thus causing it to "overheat" under all the plastic and burn the M.P.B. still                   hibernating

• M.P.B. only attack weak ponderosa pine and lodgepole pine
  

Pine beetles solution

THEY FINNALY FOUND A SOLUTION!!!
http://www.organicrosecare.org/articles/worm_bark_beetle.php

snack

Dragon can we get a snack schedule soon?
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Brad

Dead Trees For Biofuel

I found out that you can use the pine beetles to work for you and that you use the dead trees they produce to make biofuels. My dad does support this idea, but my teammates do not.

Interesting website about pine beetles

I just found another article. Please follow this link:

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05528.html

Leon

Pine beetles web

I found a great website with lots of info:http://www.getboulder.com/visitors/articles_w07/pinebeetles.html

Pine beetles 101

Here are some predators of the Pine beetle
-the almighty Nematodes prevent larva growth
-the Woodpeckers eat the beetles larva
-both types of checkered beetles eat adults


Arash