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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1480925)	8/25/2024 11:53:04 PM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579680

He should get off his satellite high horse and walk through the underbrush

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1480925)	8/26/2024 2:46:50 AM
From: Doren	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 1579680

> mountain pine beetle and other insects Clearly noticeable in the Sierras. Standing dead. Once dead they dry out, in a fire they're like a dried out Xmas tree, they explode.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1480925)	8/26/2024 3:56:35 AM
From: Broken_Clock	2 Recommendations Recommended By longz miraje Respond to of 1579680

"In western North America, an outbreak of the beetle and its microbial associates affected wide areas of lodgepole pine forest, including more than 160,000 km2 (40 million acres) of forest in British Columbia. [1] The outbreak in the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado began in 1996 and has caused the destruction of millions of acres/hectares of ponderosa and lodgepole pine trees. At the peak of the outbreak in 2009, over 16,000 km2 (4.0 million acres) were affected. [2] The outbreak then declined due to better environmental conditions, but many vulnerable trees had already been destroyed. [2] [3] Mountain pine beetles inhabit ponderosa, whitebark, lodgepole, Scots, jack, [4] limber, Rocky Mountain bristlecone, [5] and Great Basin bristlecone [6] pine trees. Normally, these insects play an important role in the life of a forest, attacking old or weakened trees, and speeding development of a younger forest. However, unusually hot, dry summers and mild winters in 2004–2007 throughout the United States and Canada, along with forests filled with mature lodgepole pine, led to an unprecedented epidemic. [7] The outbreak may have been the largest forest insect blight seen in North America since European colonization. [8] Monocultural replanting, and a century of forest fire suppression have contributed to the size and severity of the outbreak, and the outbreak itself may, with similar infestations, have significant effects on the capability of northern forests to remove greenhouse gases (such as CO2) from the atmosphere. [9]"