A great deal of the blame for this pine beetle infestation can be laid at the feet of the Liberals/Enviros.
Aprox. ten years or so ago there was a huge forest ‘blow-down’ near Steamboat Springs. Thousands of trees over hundreds of acres were literally blown down.
Environmental policies in place would not allow the trees to be removed and turned into useable products. As the trees were left to rot it provided a perfect breeding ground for the pine beetles.
So, instead of utilizing the trees and making profits..as well as realizing tax dollars from the products...these same enviro nutjobs are going to spend millions of tax payer dollars on a study of what to do.
Liberal policies just suck.
Pine peetles are killing all the trees in Colorado. Can't kill the pine beetles (with DDT) since DDT was (falsely) accused of killing people many years by people who want all bugs and all trees to live.
solution?
Kill more people. Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot were a good start ....