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   BobSmalser | May 07, 2004 02:47am | #1

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   Madrone harvested in the spring and summer is subject to Ambrosia Beetles just like Doug Fir and some others except cedar.  They bore into the sapwood and lay eggs...larvae feed on the cambium layer.  The holes look like Lyctus or Powder Post, but are confined to the sapwood and the critters don't perist once the wood is dry.

   If your Madrone was fresh cut, and lifting the bark...real easy right now, it can be done with a crowbar...doesn't show any holes, you are OK.

   That's the only beetle I know of that he could be referring to, and it isn't much of a problem, IMO.  Debarking or ponding  the logs is the only way to prevent them other than immediate milling.

   “When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think...that a time is to come when those (heirlooms) will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, ‘See! This our father did for us.’ “ --John Ruskin.