Pine Beetles

[Larryjk]

Duffy, In the early 1960s, the Bureau of Land Mgt.tried for a few years to get ahead of the beetles by spraying them. It didn't work. The beetles "hit" the sick and overmature trees. The best way would have been to harvest the old trees. Alas, environmentalists don't allow that because it leaves open areas where the trees have been harvested.\
It will be okay with them when the forest burns because that is a natural event. That is the mindset.