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Global warming's beneficiaries: Rat snakes, bark beetles, mosquitos and disease
Record-breaking cold gripped the East Coast for most of the winter months. The rest of the country experienced unseasonably warm weather spikes and early tornadoes, while Australia http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13923089-
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Summit County faces possible bark-beetle resurgence
Georgetown :: CO :: USA | 8 months ago
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One of those dead red' lodgepole pine trees stands out against the blue Colorado sky. Summit Daily / Mark Fox Though mountain pine beetle numbers are declining, drought conditions from the summer have some officials worrying about a resurgence of the
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Pine beetle fight continues across region
Vail :: CO :: USA | 8 months ago
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Beetle outbreak Across the landscape from the West Coast through the Rocky Mountains, bark beetles have affected more than 41.7 million acres of conifer forests since 1997, with 21.7 million acres in the Intermountain West alone. In 2009 alone, more
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Bark beetles devastate large forests
Missoula :: MT :: USA | 10 months ago
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Forest dwellers, especially those in more distant times, probably considered their beloved forest home as permanent. Our forests of Western North America, with their imposing and abundant sequoias, cedars, pines, spruce, and hemlocks impart a stately
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Insect score card reflects winners, losers
Rio Grande :: Brazil | 10 months ago
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For longer-lived large animals the exact extent of those effects might not be clear, but for many insects the impacts have been obvious and immediate. Some of Colorado's most damaging and beneficial insects from bark beetles to agricultural pests to
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Scientists debate beetle kill's impact on wildfires
Denver :: CO :: USA | 10 months ago
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The lodgepole pine and spruce-fir forests of the intermountain West are reeling under a one-two punch: more frequent and severe wildfires, and an epidemic of tree-killing bark beetles. Once-green forests are filled with red dying trees and patches of
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A One Percent Chance
Guelph :: Canada | 11 months ago
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June 29, 2012 Every year at this time, I bring attention to a tree disease that rewrote the book on urban forestry. Dutch Elm Disease (DED) is a fungal disease that, after decimating the elm forests of Europe early in the last century, was discovered
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Funding to address beetle-kill gets a boost from Senate
Frisco :: CO :: USA | 11 months ago
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Good news For forest health officials in Summit County, the news is good news. Although I don't know the specifics of how the money may be allocated and how much will be available for local projects, every dime invested in forest health, fire
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Bark beetles take bite out of air quality, study says
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | 12 months ago
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Research conducted outside Steamboat Springs has found that the beetles that have decimated pine and spruce forests throughout the western United States have also inadvertently contributed to the air quality problems that plague much of the region.
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Bark beetles, aided by climate change, are devastating U.S. pine forests
Mexico City :: Mexico | over 1 year ago
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In the high alpine forests of Montana outside Yellowstone National Park, Jesse Logan, a skier and biologist, has watched ancient whitebark pines, the region's mountaintop guardians, die off one by one. These long-living pines once provided highly
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