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These beetles are horny for wildfires
Tinder for these insects is actual tinder.
Are butterflies wildlife? Depends where you live in the U.S.
A legal quirk leaves officials in at least a dozen states with little or no authority to protect insects. That’s a growing problem for humans.
Drought, fire killed a third of Sierra Nevada CA forest
Drought, wildfire, and beetles killed 30% of forests in much of the Sierra Nevada from 2011- 2020, a UC Berkeley study found.
Bristlecone pines, world's forests are imperiled by climate change
The West’s worst drought in at least 1,200 years had critically weakened bristlecone pines. Voracious bark beetles — a threat to which bristlecones were previously thought immune — delivered the death blow.
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Climate change, logging collide - and a forest shrinks
Looking down a hillside dotted with large stumps and nearly devoid of trees, a pair of retired U.S. Forest Service employees lamented logging policies they helped craft to deal with two harbingers of climate change - pine beetles and wildfires.
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Beetles, drought, and fires are a ticking time bomb in the West
From California to Oregon, a tiny insect is transforming forests with a little help from climate change.
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How climate change helped fuel the U.S. lumber shortage
Bitcoin? Blasé. Gold? Going out of style. "The hottest commodity on the planet," according to Dustin Jalbert, an economist at the market-research firm Fastmarkets, is lumber.
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