Bob Bloch - Beetle Kill and other issues in Summit County

BrokerIPTV: I think a lot of people in Denver, other than probably driving through on I-70, are very unaware of the ramifications, the causes, to prepare - proposed cures even how was there even thinking about clearing all this deforesting, all the dead kill?

Bob Bloch: Well you know part of the problem too is the fact, so much of the land up here is US forest service, it is out of our control, we can touch it and that's where, I mean you take a look up on along Tenmile range, then you see all of dead trees up there. I am a photographer and I take people up where we have a view of Tenmile range and I can show you a photo of a family from 2½ years ago and the one I did this last summer, you see the difference of the forest behind them. It is all forest service. There is also one very steep terrain and its hard to get there. So, what is going to happen, we are going to have a period of time where the needles are dead, they are is still of tree and it will go just like that. If that happens we got a very serious fire danger. Now, after a number of years, I do not know how many years that is, they will eventually fall of, the fire danger would be a little bit less, it could not be there, none the less, and if that ground cover goes, we get run of, there will be streets, and leads right into the reservoir.

BrokerIPTV: Which again, we have been with Bob Bloch, Bob was he is the President of the Summit County Chamber of Commerce and Bob do you see any other, what you see is the main issues influence or affecting businesses is up here, not only just Realtors and builders, but the ski rental shop or bike rental shop or grocery stores, I mean what is the single biggest issue we need to probably look at up here?

Bob Bloch: Single biggest issue, well that's an loaded question. We have a tourist based economy up here. And there are so many things that are interrelated. We could spend the whole evening talking about it and just scratch the surface. But when you, then will take the beetle kill for example, and I started off by saying there is obvious aesthetic face to this, people see this, people come out here, they see brown trees, maybe they won't come up here so much, that is just one possible affect and how things are interrelated. That's a small example, certainly not the biggest, but, on the spot it is hard to come up with the one.

BrokerIPTV: Right, I appreciate your time Bob, thank you very much.

Bob Bloch: Thank you.

Posted on April 10, 2008 00:57:48 by Blog Author