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$40 million for beetle kill sparks climate-change debate that misses key point - The Colorado Independent
Tuesday’s announcement by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack that the U.S. Forest Service is pumping $40 million more into coping with the ongoing pine bark beetle epidemic predictably stirred up the same old tired climate change debate. The rice-sized beetles have killed more than 2 million acres of lodgepole pines across Colorado and southern Wyoming alone, […]
David O. Williams