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Atlantic: Dan Gibbs keeps dead beetles in the back of his beat-up Chevy Silverado. He has a wooden block with beetles impaled on it, each insect about the size of a grain of rice. He's got vials of embalmed beetles and their larvae. He carries around pieces of wood that show what those tiny beetles do to a mature lodgepole pine: They drill deep into the trunk and infect the tree with a fatal fungus that stains its wood blue.
Gibbs isn't a scientist. He's a commissioner for Summit County, a high-altitude......
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As Politicians Debate Climate Change, Our Forests Wither
Posted by Atlantic: Sophie Quinton on June 15th, 2012
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