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Headlines : EnvironmentWestern Canadian pine beetle infestation spreads
Mountain pine beetle attacks on timber throughout Western Canada are increasing, killing 710 million cubic meters of timber this month.
Pine beetle damage to trees in areas of the Western United States has also been increasing linked to continual warmer seasonal temperatures and altered forest fire patterns.
Every large, mature lodgepole pine forest in Colorado and southern Wyoming will be dead within three to five years, killed in a mountain pine beetle infestation unprecedented in the state.
[Posted By Livingston]Republished from www.enn.com
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – About half of the marketable pine trees in West Coast Canadian province of British Columbia have been ravaged by a nearly decade-long beetle infestation, according to new government statistics.
The outbreak of mountain pine beetles has affected trees over an area of 13.5 million hectares (33.4 million acres) in the Western Canadian province, which is a major source of softwood lumber exports to the United States.
Posted by Livingston
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im not a fire ecologist or nuthin but i reckon having losing “every large mature lodgepole pine forest in Colorado and southern Wyoming” might lead to increased forest fires
Interesting. The Canadian Press ran a story today quoting Doug Routledge as saying that the MPB have basically eaten all available pine trees in central B.C., the epicenter of the epidemic, and are now heading south and east, to the U.S. and Alberta, respectivly. Of course the headline of the article, “Expert says pine beetles in B.C. have run out of food, stopping epidemic” is a little wide of the mark, but ya can’t win ‘em all, I suppose.
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shit’s apparently crossed species as well… don’t quote me on it, just what I heard