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Article: Beetle attack will change our world
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- Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
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- September 20, 2009
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Global warming. Dwindling water. Massive wildfires. All are
implications of the invasion.
By Shauna Stephenson
sstephenson@wyomingnews.com
Slash piles surround the parking area on Pelton Creek Road in the
Medicine Bow National Forest, southwest of Laramie near the Colorado
border.
Grant Frost, a terrestrial habitat biologist for Wyoming Game and
Fish, inspects a tree, looking for tell-tale signs of beetles.
The tree looks alive, but it probably won't be for long. The
brown cadavers of lodgepoles past stand among smaller, greener
pines, testifying to the unavoidable truth: Change - big change - is
coming.
"The general feeling is this will end when the food supply runs
out," Frost says.
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