Attack of the Bark Beetles; The West is heating up -- and bark beetles are moving in for the kill

From: High Country News | Date: July 19, 2004| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

STANLEY, IDAHO -- The lodgepole pines are dying. Inside the bark of the trees, tens of millions of beetles are tunneling, birthing, hatching, maturing. In early May, when Forest Service researcher Jesse Logan drives through the Stanley Valley to inspect the damage, more than half the lodgepole pines display dull red foliage -- the signal flag of beetle victory. This summer, says Logan, the forested slopes will glow a brilliant rusty orange. In just a few more years, these broad bands of matur...

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