[CowboyJay]

I would think it is all part of natural selection in the forest.

No. They all get hit. The 90% tree mortality rate in infested areas is not a misprint. We have literally entire mountainsides full of dead trees in Colorado right now. One good hard winter would clear it up, but we haven't had one in a good decade.

[svcw]

Last year when we visited family in Highlands Ranch we experienced two blizzards. We were snowed in twice.
You didn’t have a good snow fall in the mountains, thats something I did not know.

[RepublitarianRoger2]

We have literally entire mountainsides full of dead trees in Colorado right now.

Makes me sad since I'm moving to Colorado by the end of this year. I'm wondering if all of the main natural attractions in the state are going to be gone in a couple years, and we'll just have a sea of brown.