Little Beetle, Big Problem &nbs
Little Beetle, Big Problem Since the late 1990s, the grain-of-rice-sized mountain pine beetle has attacked and killed more than 700 million cubic meters of pine trees in the inland forests of British Columbia, Canada’s top lumber-producing province. That’s equivalent to about 700 million standard telephone poles.“The current estimate is that 60 percent of mature pine in B.C. has been killed or will be killed by the end of the decade,” Rodger Hutchinson, a West Fraser vice president, said June 5 in a Bloomberg Television interview in Vancouver.Read more from the report by Christopher Donville and Willem Marx. Photographer: David Ryder/Bloomberg © 2015 Bloomberg Finance LP -- source link
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