A spraying program is quadrupling to battle rising spruce budworm numbers in western Newfoundland, but Parks Canada has decided to opt out of the effort and let nature take its course within Gros Morne National Park.
About 140,000 hectares of forest, from the Port au Port Peninsula northwards to Castor's River on the Northern Peninsula will be sprayed from the sky with biological insecticide BTK beginning in mid-June.
Source: CBC News
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