Beetles to Wipe Out Pine Trees Across Central Rockies

Within a decade or so, the vast majority of coniferous trees that make up the forests in the Central Rocky Mountains from New Mexico northward through Colorado and into Wyoming will be dead, looking red in color in their needles. There appears nothing that will stop this environmental cataclysm short of about two straight months of nighttime low temperatures around negative 50 degrees to kill the pests. And as we all know, that is not going to happen as the NOAA and the NWS is forecasting the warmest winter in recorded and recent history in the Central and Northern Rockies and across the High Plains.


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