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News Stories ASPEN'S SMUGGLER FACES CHANGE FROM BEETLE INFESTATION Forestry expert: '10 years from now that mountain won't look that way' The Aspen Times 1/1/2009 BY Scott Condon ASPEN - One of Aspen's favorite back country playgrounds will change dramatically over the next decade because of an infestation of mountain pine beetles, according to forestry experts. Read article>> GETTING READY AGAINST THE PINE BEETLE Aspen Daily News 3/12/2009 By John Bennett (Guest Columnist) Wow!The community response to last week's mountain pine beetle forum at theHotel Jerome Ballroom has been tremendous. By showing up in suchnumbers, you made it clear that our community cares about saving pinetrees in and around Aspen, from the grand old trees in Paepcke Park toselect parts of Smuggler Mountain, Hunter Creek, Independence Pass andother areas in our valley's wildland/urban interface. Read article>> STUDY TIES TREE DEATHS TO CHANGE IN CLIMATE Washington Post Staff Writer 1/23/2009 By Juliet Eilperin The death rates of trees in Western U.S. forests have doubled over the past two to three decades, according to a new study spearheaded by the U.S. Geological Survey, driven in large part by higher temperatures and water scarcity linked to climate change. Read article>> IN THE WEST, BEETLES BECOME BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES Green Inc Blog/The New York Times By Erik Olsen 11/19/2008 GrandLake, Colo., is regarded as ground zero for the pine beetle epidemic inthe West. The mountainsides are blanketed with dead trees as far as theeye can see — infested by the burrowing insect whose grip on theforests is at least partially attributed to climate change. Read article >> BARK BEETLES KILL MILLIONS OF ACRES OF TREES IN WEST The New York Times 11/17/2008 By Jim Robbins HELENA, Mont. - On the side of a mountain on the outskirts of Montana’s capital city, loggers are racing against a beetle grub the size of a grain of rice. From New Mexico to British Columbia, the region's signature pine forests are succumbing to a huge infestation of mountain pine beetles that are turning a blanket of green forest into a blanket of rust red. Montana has lost a million acres of trees to the beetles, and in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming the situation is worse. Read article>> AN ECO FLIGHT FOR THE FOREST BATTLES BEETLES The Aspen Times 10/5/2008 By John Colson ASPEN - The single-engine, six-seater plane was banking toward MountSopris after a smooth takeoff from the Pitkin County Airport, when theexperts on board pointed to the first indication of the mountain pinebeetle infestation that is rapidly obliterating Colorado's lodgepolepine forests. Read article>> NEW ASPEN NONPROFIT WORKS TO SAVE LODGEPOLE PINES The Aspen Times 10/3/2008 By John Colson ASPEN - The burgeoning death rate of the state's lodgepole pines isvirtually unstoppable no matter what is done to slow the spread of themountain pine bark beetle infestation in Colorado, a new nonprofit inAspen warns. Read article>> THE BEETLE FACTOR IN A CARBON CALCULUS The New York Times 4/29/2008 By Henry Fountain Trees have been fighting climate change for ages, using photosynthesis to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sequestering it for the long term in their tissues. Most forests are considered net sinks of carbon dioxide, meaning they store more carbon than they give up. Read article >> A ROCKY MOUNTAIN LOW The New York Times By Tom Vaughn 12/29/2007 ENCAMPMENT, Wyo. — We do not have to own land because, collectively with our fellow Americans, we possess millions of acres. Much of it is in the romantic West, where deer, elk and antelope can be harvested. Over a million acres in Wyoming and Colorado have been harmed. For me this year, the quarry was mule deer. From my home in southern Illinois, it is a two-day drive, uphill, to Laramie, Wyo., at the base of the Rockies. Well west of there from my camp near the Continental Divide, I intended to pluck a deer from my domain by bow or gun, all the while loving the lonely solitude and magnificent vistas of the mountains. Read article >> FOLLOWING THE TRACKS OF A KILLER MOUNTAIN BEETLE The New York Times By Charles Petit 1/30/2007 Inearly September, Jesse Logan, a 62-year-old insect specialist with aknack for mathematics and a deep love for the Western landscape, gazedacross a rolling meadow 10,400 feet high in the rugged Wind River Rangein Wyoming. Read article >> Scientific articles/abstracts Aerially applied verbenone-releasing laminated flakes protect Pinus contorta (lodgepole pine) stands from attack by Dendroctonus ponderosae (mountain pine beetle) in California and Idaho Colorado State University Website on the Mountain Pine Beetle U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Pine Beetle information leaflet Broadcast reports from British Columbia Mountain Pine Beetle: A Climate Change Catastrophe CBC - Pine Beetle adds to CO2 problem |
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