by Cara Bowen, age 11
Can you imagine hundreds of thousands of trees being cut down in one little area? Well that's what our government wants to do thanks to a little bug called the Asian Longhorned Beetle.
Bethel is having a big problem and the Asian Lonhorned Beetle is its name. The people of Bethel could have hundreds of thousands of trees cut down and about seven thousand are already cut. We have this group called the ALB Citizens Cooperative. They have meetings almost every week to talk about the trees. They also make plans for us. The plan now is they're trying to talk the government into chemically treating the healthy trees and only cutting down the infested ones.
There are alot of reasons why they should chemically treat instead of cut. Cutting that many healthy trees would mess up our eco system, all the trees gone will cause flooding and dirty water, and lots of animals homes would be taken away.
I have a woods in my backyard and it's probably getting cut down too. We use our woods for many reasons. We hunt in it, stack wood in it, and my friends, family and I play in it. We build forts in it, we go exploring, and we have our favorite clubhouse in it. What kind of fun can you have if you can't climb trees?!
Another reason is our beautiful view. If all the trees are gone, deer, turkey and other animals won't come. When it rains we'll have a big mudhole in our backyard, and our creek won't be a beautiful stream with flowers and green leaves around it. It would be a big mudbank with water running through it.
So Bethel is really going through alot right now and so many people already have what I just explained. For example, some people just moved to Bethel from New York City to a live in this beautiful house with trees lining the driveway and now it's a giant mudhole. So if you agree with me you should contact your government officials and help try to stop what they are trying to do. And if you are interested and want more information you can go to www.BethelALB.com.
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