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Pine forests at US ski resorts ravaged by bark beetles

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The classic forest-endowed mountainscapes of Utah and Colorado are being affected by a plague of bark beetles which can kill healthy pine trees. This is affecting avalanche risk and snow retention where snow is normally shaded from sunlight by the forest canopy.

Brian Head, a picturesque ski resort in Utah, has been severely affected following a series of wind storms in the early 1990s which felled large numbers of trees, encouraging beetle activity. Eventually the beetles attacked 90 per cent of healthy trees across the mountainside.

The problem is also affecting Steamboat and Winter Park in Colorado, and some parts of Caifornia and Idaho.

This report by Alex Wells of Ski Magazine.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
This was evident when I was in Jasper, March 2004.
Many pine trees gone brown due to beetle attack. Big programme to fell diseased trees.
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Same is true of Lake Louise, the dead trees look as if they have been in a forest fire and just go black.
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Bark beetles take advantage of unhealthy trees. They are not the culprits. Pollution, perpetual droughts and warmer temperatures are weakening the forests. The beetles are just finishing them off.
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Same problem in BC. It needs a period of sustained seriously cold temperatures to finish them off, which hasn't happened for a few winters now.
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