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BC City Bug

Prince George based TDB Consultants has small gear but a big appetite for helping communities with their beetle battles.

The mountain pine beetle (MPB) has ravaged Interior BC high-elevation pine forests, but the tiny insect with the boring disposition is also hitting stands within city boundaries. BC, Alberta and even US cities - many reliant upon tourism - are expected to be hit, creating not only an eye-sore, but a potentially deadly situation where these dying or expired trees are able to candle a fire into heavily populated areas from forests outside. Cities such as Prince George, which has 33,000 ha of forested and developed land within its boundary, have instituted a community fire ...

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