To All,

It is a shame that the "Emergency Folks" in PA gave a death sentence to a
small trailer of hives which had been pulled by a minivan while in Missouri
where about 500 hives were spilled off a big tractor-trailer a great amount
of effort and co-ordination was generated by various govt. agencies and
beekeepers with the goal to save as many bees as possible.  The situation
in PA sheds light on the importance of beekeepers being involved with
planning for such spills on both the local and the state level. If we as
beekeepers do not get involved such actions as those by the PEMA folks in
PA will continue to happen in PA and other states, and a beekeeper's bees
will likely be destroyed rather than given the opportunity to be saved.

Chuck Norton

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