Article: Tiny Beetles Pose Big Threat to Pines in Cortez, Colo., Area.

By Electa Draper, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 18-- CORTEZ , Colo.-- A freakish fall has arrived in this region, with vast swatches of evergreens turning brown, along with the oaks.

After southwestern Colorado's devastating summer of drought and fire, pestilence is spreading its stain on the area's enormous forest of pi[+ or -]on pines.

A sea of green pi[+ or -]ons, a seemingly unconquerable expanse of woodland since history has been recorded here, is turning rust-colored and dying off.

"It's going to be a landscape-changing event, just like the fires," state district forester Dan Ochocki said of the ...

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