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"For several years I was losing 30 to 40 trees a year to those damn beetles.”

Glad it helps you. Are you a northern forester?

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Not a forester. Just a guy who owns Montana forestland.

We were told that the dead trees needed to be cut down and burned by July 15th, before the beetles fly off to infest another tree. I was spending all my chainsaw time trying to keep up with beetle kill instead of firewood gathering. I’m hell with chainsaws ... but I’m not getting any younger.

I prefer the Fir, Alder, Cottonwood and Aspen trees anyway over the Pine. But I hated to just burn up all those trees. The beetles are gone though. And none too soon. Unbelievable how fast they can kill off a stand of trees. Tough little bastards ... smaller than a grain of rice.