[Alberta's Child]

Believe it or not, climate change is part of the problem. Pests like these beetles would be killed off in a single season if the temperature dropped to -30 or colder for several weeks at a time, but that doesn't happen like it used to.

One "solution" being considered in Canada has been the possible introduction of the beetle's main predator in Asia -- a wasp of some kind that feeds on the beetle's eggs.

[george76]

Foresters have a scientific solution, but are prevented from acting by Sierra Club lawyers.