The US Forest Service must take drastic measures to prevent the woolly adelgid from expanding its domain. The woolly adelgid is the parasite that has been working a blight on the area’s hemlock trees for years. Now, it is time to play the blame game. Some say it was fiscal conservatism that prevented the forest service from buying lots and lots of adelgid-eating Japanese beetles. The federal government had misplaced priorities. Others suppose there was a failure in forest service planning; they didn’t micromanage contingencies sufficiently. There is an expectation that nature functions with straight, rectangular, concrete-lined riverbeds, trees maintain their size and never grow old, erosion and decay don’t happen, unless a mold is on a particular endangered species list, and people must plan to keep the homeostasis intact.