Took a drive through AZ, Utah, CO and NM this summer. I saw a lot of beetle damage. The mountains around Breckenridge are terrible.
I haven’t been thru that area in years.. pretty country.
we need a few years of good rainfall and a lot of removal of dead and diseased trees ,, knock on wood.
I was in Steamboat Springs some years ago, listening to a naturalist on a ski tour. She was proudly saying how the beetles were coming and soon two of the three types of evergreens would be killed. I asked why they didn’t try to kill the beetles and save the trees and she looked at me like I was crazy.