Bark beetles are killing forests — but they might be saving them, too

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By Maddie OatmanMar 20, 2015, 6:41 pm285 pts
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There is an eerie feel to this grove of lodgepole pines that I can’t quite put my finger on as entomologist Diana Six tromps ahead of me, hatchet in hand, scanning the southwestern Montana…

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