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Author's Note

These dying trees represent hundreds of thousands of acres of dying pine trees in British Columbia, Canada. They are being killed by a small insect called the Pine Beetle. We have whole mountain sides that used to be green and lush with Pines that are now either red with dying trees or barren with trees that have dropped all their needles and are now just waiting to be blown over by the next windstorm and to rot.
The main reason for this tragedy is the warming of the weather in northern B.C.
The only way that would have controlled these beetles would have been -40 degree or colder weather in the early part of the winter that lasted two weeks or more. We haven't had that cold weather now for over ten years and may never have it again.
So the Pine Beetle continues procreate prolificly and to spread quickly over the province, now starting to head into Alberta.
Could something have been done, maybe. Is it too late now, certainly.

Keywords

forest, insects, landscapes, mountain ranges, summer, trees