It’s native to western pine forests, especially lodgepole and ponderosa forests, where it normally lives in relatively small numbers, killing a tree or two here and there. It’s been normal too ...

On Jan. 14 Parmar took a helicopter flight to a Douglas fir clearcut being carried out down the Mackenzie Forest Service Road ...

Possible causes have focused primarily on climate change induced stress on the trees, rendering them more susceptible to attack ... The beetles can kill many species of pines, but the current outbreak ...