One correction: A whole lot of those dead trees WERE killed by pine beetles, but most of that stuff is fire kill. Got the same deal running east from Bozeman along I90 nearly all the way to Billings.
Shoot a wolf? Me? Never heard of such a thing.
(..riiiiiiiiiight..)
Be interested to talk to you about that.
I’m not very familiar with the forests heading north toward Great Falls and Helena, and even less so with those farther west and north.
But I live near and hunt and fish in the very areas burned by the great fires between Bozeman and Billings. And the burned areas now hold great expanses of gray, spidery dead trees.
While the areas even up toward Bozeman that I’m talking about are thick and dense-—but RED.
Now perhaps those wide swaths of red trees were somehow killed by the heat of fires, or something, without having actually been burned or scorched.
I have always believed, maybe on too little evidence, that it is pine beetle.
You sound like you know what you are talking about and I appreciate the responses.