US Edition‘Beetle-Mania’: Colorado Scientists and Citizens Question State Officials’ Claim that Beetle-Killed Forests Increase Wildfire Risk
Colorado's task force will promote funding and tax incentives to remove beetle-killed trees amid debate on wildfire risks, with 90% of processed beetle-killed wood from mitigation projects.
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Aspen Times
‘Beetle-mania’: Colorado scientists and citizens question state officials’ claim that beetle-killed forests increase wildfire risk
Some scientists and Colorado residents are raising concern that the state’s messaging and management of beetle-killed forests do not align with the published research on the interaction between dead trees and wildfires. Mountain pine beetle impacts are receiving renewed attention after Colorado Gov. Jared Polis issued an executive order in December to assemble a task force aimed at responding to a beetle outbreak affecting ponderosa forests on t…
‘Beetlemania’: Colorado scientists and citizens question state officials’ claim that beetle-killed forests increase wildfire risk
Some scientists and Colorado residents are raising concern that the state’s messaging and management of beetle-killed forests do not align with the published research on the interaction between dead trees and wildfires. Mountain pine beetle impacts are receiving renewed attention after Colorado Gov. Jared Polis issued an executive order in December to assemble a task force aimed at responding to a beetle outbreak affecting ponderosa forests on t…
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