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The Beetles: Eighty-Nine Million Acres of Abrupt Climate Change

2016-02-16 20:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Truthout: A 100,000-acre spruce beetle kill drapes this alpine mountain park like a heavy wool blanket. Except for a green strip of young trees along the old logging roads that crisscross forested areas like these, 90 percent or more of the rest of the forest has been killed. Groundhog Park, La Garita Range, Rio Grande National Forest, south central Colorado, elevation 11,000 feet. Background: Mesa Mountain, elevation 12,994 feet. (Photo: Bruce Melton) We were awash for 19 days in a tumultuous sea of mountains...

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Spruce Beetles Don't Increase Severity Of Colorado Forest Fires, Researchers Say

2015-10-29 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World News: Spruce beetles have often been blamed for increasing the severity of raging wildfires throughout Colorado. While the bugs invade Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir forests and scar the trees they feed on, this destruction is not linked to the occurrence of forest fires plaguing the state, a new study revealed. Within the past decade, spruce beetles have chewed through roughly half a million acres of forests in Colorado. In 2014 alone the beetles reportedly infested more than 87,000 new acres of...

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An Update on Beetles in Oaks Bottom

2015-08-13 00:49:28| PortlandOnline

Everything you need to know about the Sellwood Neighborhood biocontrol migration event

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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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