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Double trouble from Colorado pine beetles
Denver :: CO :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Colo.University of Colorado researchers say mountain pine beetles that are devastating forests across the West are now breeding twice in some years. Researchers say the beetles usually lay their eggs in late July or August. The larvae then burrow
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Timber inventory a guessing game, critics charge
Toronto :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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The B.C. government is not adequately keeping track of its inventory of timber lands, according to NDP Leader Adrian Dix. And that means the province is putting off some tough decisions, he says, on managing what's left of pine-beetle-ravaged forests.
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Province fails to protect, restore pine beetle-ravaged area: report
Vancouver :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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B.C's beetle-ravaged forests as they slide into a long-term decline in both value and diversity, Auditor-General John Doyle said in a report released Thursday. We are already facing the fact that the value of the forest is going to be diminished as
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Community Agriculture Alliance: Aspens rebound in Routt National Forest
Aspen :: CO :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The quaking aspen is the most widely distributed native North American tree species and is very important to many communities in the West. Locals treasure their presence and view aspens as an indicator of forest health. The medium-sized deciduous
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Pine Beetle Epidemic Slows in Rocky Mountain Region
Denver :: CO :: USA | over 1 year ago
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An epidemic that has been slowly eating away at the Rocky Mountain pine tree population appears to be slowing in some areas, according to the latest aerial survey. The joint federal-state survey, which measured pine beetle infestation in Colorado,
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Forest Health Survey 2011: Pine beetle infestation slows
Denver :: CO :: USA | over 1 year ago
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A recent Colorado aerial and disease forest survey showed the mountain pine beetle continues to be the most significant forest health concern. However, although an additional 140,000 acres of tree mortality were detected across the state, the
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Hamner fighting for reforestation funding
Frisco :: CO :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The bill, HB1032, reauthorizes a forest restoration program and three related funds established in legislation passed by former Sen. Dan Gibbs in 2007, which is set to sunset this year. The proposal won approval in the state House Agricultural
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Writers on the Range: A forest management structure that can't cope
Breckenridge :: CO :: USA | over 1 year ago
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When my East Coast-based parents came to Breckenridge, Colo., for our family vacation in June this year, my dad couldn't stop exclaiming over the dead trees. Scores of rust-colored lodgepole pines, killed by the bark beetle epidemic, lined pretty
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Salvage logging, drought, cold weather all factors in Chilcotin ranch water woes
Vancouver :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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Salvage logging of beetle-killed lodgepole pine forests contributed to water problems on a Chilcotin ranch, the Forest Practices Board said in a report released Tuesday. But the board suggested that drought as well as cold weather were also
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Pine beetle series part 5: Forestry’s ‘perfect storm’
Williams Lake :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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The Chilcotin's beetle-killed lodgepole pine forests are saturated with water...And logging trucks known as Super-B Trains, hauling 300 to 400 logs apiece, are inching their way through deep mud wallows. Tolko Industries Ltd. needs 125 loads per day
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