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Our ample mountain snows last winter were a relief after seven years of drought. But signals from climate

Western Colorado lawmakers admit there is little the state legislature can do about Colorado’s catastrophic loss of lodgepole pine forests from an epidemic of the mountain pin

A pine beetle infestation is spreading from the mountains into southern Wyoming and the Front Range, and all of Colorado's mature lodgepole pine forests

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Mountain pine beetles are still finding new trees to kill at an unprecedented rate in local forests, with no signs that the infestation will slow down any time soon.