Saturday, March 2, 2013

Mountain Pine Beetle

0109-0085 by George Bruckner
0109-0085, a photo by George Bruckner on Flickr.

It takes over several days of minus 35 Celsius to kill pine beetle populations. In the Interior of BC this weather event has not occurred since 1995. The image is of Lodgepole pine forest that has been killed. The beetle epidemic has now killed majority of the Lodgepole stands in BC.

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