The devastation caused by pine beetle invasion is hard to miss. Millions of acres of red, lifeless trees fill B.C. forests and, to a lesser extent, Alberta forests.
Besides the hundreds of millions of cubic metres of marketable wood destroyed, the beetles have destroyed the habitat for much forest wildlife and left forests more vulnerable to wildfires.
Source: Red Deer Advocate
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