Inside the fight to save Colorado’s ponderosa pines from beetle kill — an exponentially growing threat

“We anticipate there to be anywhere from twice as much, to three times as much, activity as we saw last year,” says Dan West, a Colorado State Forest Service entomologist. “That is startling.”

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