Twitchell holds a container with a beetle.
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Beetle-killed pines - the remnants of a logging operation along the Yellowhead Highway in northern British Columbia - stand in front of the Caribou Mountains.
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A lone beetle-killed lodgepole pine stands along Routt County Road 129 near Steamboat Lake.
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John Twitchell, a Steamboat Springs-based forester with the Colorado State Forest Service, stands near a burn pile in the Red Creek subdivision in North Routt County.
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Roy Mask, a Gunnison-based entomologist with the U.S. Forest Service, said higher temperatures could spell trouble for the Gunnison National Forest, where frigid winters always have kept the mountain pine beetle in check.
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Jim Snetsinger, British Columbia's chief forester, says 52 percent of the province's lodgepole pines are dead.
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Beetle-killed lodgepole have been heavily logged from areas around Kamloops, British Columbia.
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A robin sits on a dead lodgepole pine branch near Dumont Lake on Rabbit Ears Pass.
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Dead lodgepole pine spot the landscape in the high-desert city of Kamloops.
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A dead lodgepole remains after logging near Kamloops, British Columbia.
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Dr. Dezene Huber with the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George talks about his beetle research at his lab.
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Dr. Dezene Huber with the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George points to the tracks the beetles leave in pine trees.
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Dr. Dezene Huber, left, with the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, talks with a student in his lab.
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Dead pines spot the desert landscape near Kamloops, British Columbia.
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Sap on a pine tree in North Routt County holds a defeated beetle.
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John Twitchell, a Steamboat Springs-based forester with the Colorado State Forest Service, looks at the burn piles in the Red Creek subdivision in North Routt County. Twitchell advised residents in the subdivision about how to deal with beetle infestation.
Published on August 3, 2008
Roy Mask, a Gunnison-based entomologist with the U.S. Forest Service, said rising temperatures could spell trouble for the Gunnison National Forest
Published on August 3, 2008
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