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🌱 How beetle-killed pines near Rocky Point are fueling wildfire danger

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  • How beetle-killed pines near Rocky Point are fueling wildfire danger

Also on today's calendar: Simple Gifts Handbell Holiday Concert.

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Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Very cold with clouds and sun, with a high of 31 and low of 27 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Breezy and not as cold, temps: high: 42, low: 28.
  • Thursday: Times of clouds and sun, with a high of 50 and low of 45 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• A decade of the Southern Pine Beetle leaves Pine Barrens primed for fire (greaterlongisland.com) — Rocky Point’s own Natural Resources Management Area is highlighted as a key site showing how Southern Pine Beetle damage is leaving Long Island’s Pine Barrens primed for dangerous wildfires. Experts explain how climate change, dead pine stands, and invasive plants are combining to raise fire risk, and outline new state-funded forest management and local habitat-restoration efforts residents can support.
   

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I don't know, but April May!
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