Article: San Bernardino County, Calif., Fire Officials Propose $70 Million Tree Removal.

By Scott Vanhorne, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 5--SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- San Bernardino County Fire Marshal Peter Brierty laid large maps of mountain communities on a table Tuesday afternoon and pointed to acres of private land still dense with trees infested with bark beetles.

Southern California Edison, which has spent $45 million to remove thousands of dead pines near power lines, and the U.S. Forest Service will not remove all the trees.

The county cannot tackle the monumental task, and landowners cannot afford to spend millions to eradicate the dangerous conditions created by a ...

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