pine bark beetle
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Ralph Maughan
Critical pine in grizzly nutrition is in steep decline. May get endangered listing- Whitebark pine is in dire straights and it may well get on the endangered species list, but what then? How do you save a tree so beset with disease and insect attacks with an ESA listing? Story in the LA Times. Feds…
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Ralph Maughan
Will it increase support for salvage logging? Of course it will! Will it increase support for Tester’s Wilderness plus logging bill? Yes! Will there actually be an increase in salvage logging? Hard to say. Some points needs to be made. First, this beetle epidemic is not just a Montana thing. It extends from the Yukon…
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