4.7.2009: America's 4 July bonfires served a dual purpose yesterday. They burned the wood of trees destroyed by a trio of bugs that are devastating parts of the nation's forests.
With 750 million acres of forests in the United States, the scale of the problem is massive. Since 1999, the country has lost, on average, 1 per cent of its tree cover per year. This means these small insects have killed about 10 per cent of all US forests in 10 years.
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4.7.2009: Die USA leiden unter dem schlimmsten Waldsterben seit 150 Jahren
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Pine beetle gets blame for Canfor Corp. sawmill closureThe pine beetle is being singled out as the main reason a Quesnel sawmill is shutting down, laying off 180 workers.
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Lumber supply, employment in B.C. will feel mountain pine beetle’s biteOne of the major clouds hanging over British Columbia’s economy and forest products industry is uncertainty about the mountain pine beetle epidemic.
To date, the pine beetle has killed an estimated 50% of the province’s mature lodgepole pine.
In a recent economic analysis that focused on the pine beetle epidemic, Central 1 economist Bryan Yu noted that over the past 90 years there have been four or five major mountain pine beetle infestations.
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Calm down about beetle-killed forestsBill Gabbert in New West (US): …Sometimes land managers, when faced with a landscape of brown, ugly, beetle-killed trees, fall all over themselves finding additional taxpayer f
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Alberta’s fight against the mountain pine beetleAlberta had a good year in its fight against the mountain pine beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins), thanks to both the weather and to the province’s containment efforts.
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Bark beetle epidemics in ColoradoAbout 20 percent of the land has been treated.
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Alberta sees signs that it is winning the war against the mountain pine beetlesAlberta is seeing signs that it is winning the war against the mountain pine beetles, thanks to:
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Southern Pine Beetle Outbreak in New Jersey: Another Example of Why Forests Should be Managed
A large faction of the American public has become convinced that the only way to
conserve our prized forests on public lands is to stop harvesting, prevent wildfires, and restrict or
exclude forest management. Too often this “lock it up and let it go” mentality can have
unintended, disastrous consequences, as demonstrated across the nation in recent years. The
extensive mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) outbreaks in lodgepole pine (Pinus
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Softwood lumber dispute’s next round set to begin August 9On August 9, the United States will makes its case to the London Court of International Arbitration that British Columbia is subsidizing timber prices for pine-beetle damaged trees.
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Wis. officials start work on timber clearing plan
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Alberta making progress against the mountain pine beetleAerial surveys show Alberta is making progress in its fight against mountain pine beetle infestations in some parts of the province.
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Pine beetles part 3: A flood of problems for ranchersWatching the pine beetles kill off the Chilcotin's vast stands of lodgepole pine forest was bad enough for cattle rancher Randy Saugstad.
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Pine beetle plague is being exploited to cut healthy treesAsk who caused this plague destroying our province's biodiversity.
Those who go to our backcountry are familiar with our huge clearcuts and the damage done.
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One pine beetle outbreak can affect forest carbon flux for decadesBut the precise effect of pine bark beetle plagues on the nitrogen cycle and carbon cycle is highly variable, says a research group led by the University of Idaho, who have used an ecosystem model to simulate outbreaks.
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Logging in forest reserve areas within MPB epidemic areaHonorable Steve Thomson
Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
PO Box 9071 Stn Prov Govt
Victoria, BC, V8W 9E9
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Is aggressive salvage logging in B.C. causing the crash of the moose populations?The Vancouver Sun is reporting that the salvage logging (Kalamitätsnutzung) of the beetle-killed pine forests in British Columbia is being blamed for moose populations in the interior crashing by up to 70%.
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