"The trees are turning red and dying, and the public expects us to do something about it," says Phil Bowden, a specialist with the White River National Forest in Colorado. Bowden now spends almost all of his time studying the bark beetle outbreak--which has left hundreds of thousand of acres of dead forest across the Rockies. "We can't chase the bugs, but we can put in some buffers and try to protect communities," he says.

Bowden points to a 14-acre dear-cut above the town of Vail on the forest boundary. The clearing is designed to create a 200-foot break between the dying lodgepole pine forest above and the homes below by promoting the regeneration of a strip of ...

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