[george76]

" If you have ever seen those red pine trees then you have seen the effects of bark beetle, and these days entire mountainsides are covered in a spanning sea of red, dead trees. "

[kinoxi]

If George Bush and those evil republicans didn't hate the trees so much...

[Red Badger]

I know we're having a drought here for the last 6 months, Panhandle of Florida, but I've noticed a large number of pines and OAK tress dying around here lately, not just old ones, but young ones, too. Anybody know what kills these trees besides just drought?........

[xcamel]

You can pretty much thank the tree huggers for banning logging on massive tracts of land, allowing the beetle to move in and kill a forest that should have been harvested, and now will just burn away.

[kinsman redeemer]

This site reports some of the work being done on the Kenai Peninsula.

Good collaborative effort.

[Little Ray]

Ya know, if the forest is infected, a fire might not be a bad thing...

[tubebender]

And fires continue to burn in NW Cal... http://times-standard.com/local/ci_4183284

These were caused by lightening strikes in late July...

[woodbutcher1963]

This has become a MAJOR problem in British Columbia. The sawmills in this area are processing this timber almost exclucivelly. Originally they thought they had 8 years to harvest this timber. They realized they only had 3-5 yrs. They're millions of acres of dead standing timber and it is spreading.