Year Published:
Cataloging Information
Topic(s):
Fire Ecology
Fire & Bark Beetles
Fire & Bark Beetles
Ecosystem(s):
Alpine forest/krummholz, Subalpine wet spruce-fir forest, Subalpine dry spruce-fir forest, Montane wet mixed-conifer forest, Montane dry mixed-conifer forest, Ponderosa pine woodland/savanna, Juniper woodland
NRFSN number: 11497
FRAMES RCS number: 5440
Record updated:
The lodgepole pines are dying. Inside the bark of the trees, tens of millions of beetles are tunneling, birthing, hatching, maturing. In early May, when Forest Service researcher Jesse Logan drives through the Stanley Valley to inspect the damage, more than half the lodgepole pines display dull red foliage - the signal flag of beetle victory.
Citation
Nijhuis, M. 2004. Global warming's unlikely harbingers: the West is heating up -- And barkbeetles are moving in for the kill. High Country News. July 2004.