VANCOUVER — An end is in sight to British Columbia’s mountain pine beetle infestation, largely because the bugs have eaten through most of the trees that had sustained them.
Doug Routledge, vice-president of the Council of Forest Industries, said that it will take years to harvest dead trees for whatever value the wood has, but that the current phase of beetle activity is winding down.
“Beetles in the western side of the Rocky Mountains have fundamentally eaten themselves out of house and home,” he said yesterday, commenting on the release of figures on the impact of the bugs.
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