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Bark Beetles Are Decimating Our Forests. That Might Actually Be a Good Thing
2015-04-07 17:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: There is an eerie feel to this grove of lodgepole pines that I can't quite put my finger on as entomologist Diana Six tromps ahead of me, hatchet in hand, scanning the southwestern Montana woods for her target. But as she digs the blade into a towering trunk, it finally hits me: the smell. There's no scent of pine needles, no sharp, minty note wafting through the brisk fall air. Six hacks away hunks of bark until she reveals an inner layer riddled with wormy passageways. "Hey, looky!" she exclaims,...
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