Mountain Pine Beetle
There is a reforestation crisis in British Columbia and very few people know about its existence. Over 700,000 hectares once logged for timber are now barren landscapes; a gaping void on a sheet of statistics. On top of this, an additional 673,000 hectares of crown land has been burned due to forest fires. On top [...]
Here is a really good video that talks about the effects of climate change on the mountain pine beetle population. These tiny little beetles normally are killed off during cold winters but British Columbia hasn’t seen cold weather for over ten years now. As a result, the mountain pine beetles are multiplying at an exponential [...]
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