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Truthout: A 100,000-acre spruce beetle kill drapes this alpine mountain park like a heavy wool blanket. Except for a green strip of young trees along the old logging roads that crisscross forested areas like these, 90 percent or more of the rest of the forest has been killed. Groundhog Park, La Garita Range, Rio Grande National Forest, south central Colorado, elevation 11,000 feet. Background: Mesa Mountain, elevation 12,994 feet. (Photo: Bruce Melton)
We were awash for 19 days in a tumultuous sea of mountains......
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The Beetles: Eighty-Nine Million Acres of Abrupt Climate Change
Posted by Truthout: None Given on February 16th, 2016
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