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Article: Colorado brown. (Colorado trees being damaged by bugs) (Forest Health)
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- American Forests
- Article date:
- May 1, 1992
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LAKE CITY, COLORADO-At first it was a just vague impression, something working uncomfortably at the edge of consciousness as I drove along the twisty roads and mountain highways of Colorado--my first tour of the Front Range since I left it behind after a two-year sojourn that ended in 1949. I had not been back since then and naturally had no vivid memory of the particulars, 42 years being not exactly yesterday. Then on the way to Lake City, which is about 50 miles south of Gunnison, l saw a whole mountainside of it. The trees were no longer green. They were brown.
In the days after that, of course, I saw it everywhere--the Colorado brown--for I began looking for ...