Tag: beetle
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Beetle-Kill Fuels Bioenergy
- by Kelly Hatton, July 17, 2014, Western Confluence On a morning in early March, I ride with Cody Neff, owner of West Range Reclamation (WRR), in his truck from Frisco, Colorado, to the company’s nearby worksite in the White River National Forest. Light is just starting to reach over the high snow-covered slopes surrounding Frisco, but Neff…
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Cutting the Trees We Need to Save the Forest
- by Bob Berwyn, July 7, 2014, The Colorado Independent Even here, in a cool forest hollow near Tenmile Creek, you can feel the tom-toms. It’s a distant beat, born in the marbled halls of Congress, where political forces blow an ill wind across Colorado’s forests. Nearly every Western elected official with a clump of shrubby…