Pine Beetle

War Against Tree Bug Prompts Unlikely Alliances

AP | VERONICA ZARAGOVIA | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Parasites, Invasive Species, South Dakota, Pine Beetles, South Dakota Pine Beetles, Black Hills Tree Bug, Tree Parasites, Video, Pine Beetle, Black Hills, South Dakota Tree Bug, Environment, Black Hills Pine Beetle, South Dakota Black Hills, Ap, Green News

SPEARFISH CANYON, S.D. (AP) — Joe Shark's Native American heritage taught him to be leery of the timber industry on the South Dakota reservation whe...

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'Green News Report' - March 20, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Floods, Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Fracking, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, Rising Sea Level, 2012 Presidential Election, Oil Spill, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Barack Obama, Senate, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Sustainability, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Rising Sea Levels, James Inhofe, O'Hare, Pine Beetle, Electric Cars, Electric Highway, Oregon, Mitt Romney, Thomas Edison, Illinois, Asian Carp, Factory Farms, Antibiotic Resistance, Oecd, Fertilizer, Pink Slime, China, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Obama moc...

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Saving the Western United States From Pine Beetles

Lily Durfee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado Wilderness, Pine Beetle, Trees, Colorado Forest Fires, Mark Udall, Environmental Policy, Denver News
Lily Durfee

The pine beetle is wreaking havoc across western forests, and congressional action is overdue.

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Saving America's Great Outdoors

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drought, Michael Brune, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Pine Beetle, Global Warming, Epa, Green News
Carl Pope

Wildlife die offs are resulting not from the catastrophic climate change we may yet unleash, but from the much more modest climate disruption already underway.

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Twig Beetles Join Pine Beetles In Killing Colorado Forests

Boulder Daily Camera | Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado-Lodgepole-Pine-Trees, Colorado State Forest Service, Twig Beetle, Pine Beetle, Dead Trees, Denver News

FRISCO, Colo. -- As if the beetles that have killed millions of pine trees in the Rockies weren't enough, there's a new bug looking to eat what the ot...

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Udall: Senate To Approve $50 Million For Pine Beetle Outbreak

Durango Herald | Joe Hanel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rocky Mountain National Park, Mark Udall, Pine Beetle, Dead Trees, Senate Funding, $50 Million, Pine Tree, National Park Service, US Forest Service, Denver News

The U.S. Senate will approve an extra $50 million for Western states to deal with dead trees from the bark beetle outbreak, Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., ...

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Pine Beetle-Killed Trees Pose Danger To Campgrounds

The Denver Post | Bruce Finley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pine-Beetle-Epidemic, Campground Closures, Pine Beetle, US Forest Service, Lodgepole Pine, Denver News

When a beetle-killed tree falls in the woods and nobody is there, federal foresters barely flinch. But when millions fall -- an estimated 100,000 e...

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CSU Testing Biofuel From Pine Beetle Killed Trees

The Denver Post | Mark Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Butanol, Gasoline, Biofuels, Pine Beetle, Csu, Ethanol, Green Energy, Cobalt Technologies, Green Entrepreneurs, Lodgepole Pine, Denver News

It's not exactly turning a sow's ear into a silk purse, but Cobalt Technologies Inc. is aiming to transform pine-bark-beetle-killed lodgepole pines in...

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Green News Report -- February 9, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: 'Snowpocalypse' in Washington, D.C., but snow-less in Vancouver for the Winter Olympics; Toyota...

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Lodgepole Pines To Be Converted To Electricity, Ethanol

Rawlins Daily Times | Bridget Manley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lodgepole-Pine, Pine Beetle, Routt National Forest, Medicine Bow National Forest, US Forest Service, Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic, Denver News

Take a trip to the Medicine Bow National Forest and you're likely to see red. A lot of it. About 90 percent of mature lodgepole pines in the Med...

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Wyoming forests prep for cuts; money goes to beetles

The Aspen Times | Matt Joyce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shoshone, Rocky Mountains, White River, Pine Beetle, Wyoming, Roosevelt, National Parks, Routt, Forest Service, Colorado, Arapahoe, Denver News

CHEYENNE, Wyo. Some national forests in Wyoming are trimming their budgets, including possible campground closures, as the regional U.S. Forest Servic...

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Aspen Trees Dying Off; Scientists Still Don't Have Definitive Reason

Wall Street Journal | Stephanie Simon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wolverine, Global Climate Change, Wall Street Journal, Lodgepole Pine, Pine-Beetle, Aspen, Denver News

DENVER -- This should be the golden season across the West, when aspen paint hillsides in shades of fall. But a mysterious ailment -- or perhaps a co...

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Q&A: Ken Burns on Climate Change, Wolf Hunting and Why Yellowstone Isn't "Geyser World"

Scott Dodd | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grizzly Bears, Pbs, Ken Burns, Yellowstone, Wolves, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Wilderness, National Parks, Wildlife, Bison, Pine Beetle, Climate Change, Green News
Scott Dodd

"The national parks are the first time in human history that land has been set aside -- not for kings or noblemen or the very rich -- but for everybody, and for all time," Burns said.

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Beetles Killing Trees In Colorado, Reviving An Industry

Green Inc. | Erik Olsen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado, Pine Beetle Epidemic, Lumber, Pine Beetle, Timber, Green News

Grand Lake, Colo., is regarded as ground zero for the pine beetle epidemic in the West. The mountainsides are blanketed with dead trees as far as the ...

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