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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] Bark Beetles Kill Millions of Acres of Trees in West
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:55:00 -0800 (PST)

I'm not going to try to give a quick run-down on this article. I knew the
bark beetle problem was big, but I had no idea of the near & future
ramifications. From tomorrow's NYT:

excerts:

"In the next three to five years, Mr. Kyhl said, virtually all of Colorado’s
lodgepole pine trees over five inches in diameter will be lost, about five
million acres. “Already in many places, every lodgepole over five inches is
dead as far as the eye can see,” he said.".......

".........Hoping to keep their forests from completely dying, to earn money
by selling dead and infected trees and to mitigate fire risks, landowners are
scrambling to cut the pines. If enough are cut — up to 75 percent — it might
leave some behind that, with less competition for water, can survive......."

"The dead trees that blanket the mountains are shifting ecosystems as well."

"The other major problem is large numbers of falling trees. In Colorado and
Wyoming, officials have closed 38 campgrounds for fear trees could fall on
campers. They have reopened all but 14. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/science/18trees.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp







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