The following adn.com article was sent by:
Don Bertolette ([email protected])
And Don Bertolette had this to say:
15 years ago, the spruce bark beetle wiped out the spruces on the Kenai
Peninsula. With temperatures warming up, further up in the north, the spruce
bark beetles are on the move...looks like a case of "continental warming" to
those of us in it...;>}
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Beetles, wildfire work together to ravage northern forests
CLIMATE CONCERNS: As temperatures rise, experts say problem will get worse.
By CHARLES J. HANLEY<br />The Associated Press
Published: 08/23/09 22:23:25
HAINES JUNCTION, Yukon -- A veil of smoke settled over the forest in the shadow
of the St. Elias Mountains, in a wilderness whose spruce trees stood tall and
gray, a deathly gray even in the greenest heart of a Yukon summer.
"As far as the eye can see, it's all infested," forester Rob
Legare said, looking out over the thick woods of the Alsek River valley.
Beetles and fire, twin plagues, are consuming northern forests in what
scientists say is a preview of the future, in a century growing warmer, as the
land grows drier, trees grow weaker and pests, abetted by milder winters, grow
stronger.
You can read the full story online at:
http://www.adn.com/fire/story/908862.html?story_link=email_msg
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