Wild Fire
June 17, 2009--Beetle-kill could imperil Rocky Mountain water supply (Denver Post)
Water supplies for 33 million people could be endangered if millions of acres of beetle-ravaged forests in the Rocky Mountains were to catch fire, a U.S. Forest Service official said Tuesday.
November 18, 2008--Bark beetles kill millions of acres of trees in West (NY Times)
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
