Sentences with phrase «destroyed by beetles»

Some of the fire scars stood adjacent to stands of lodgepole pine destroyed by beetles.

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Beetles are now wiping out trees, even whole forests, at an unprecedented pace; they ravaged 9.2 million acres of forest in the western United States in 2010, according to the Forest Service, three times as much as that destroyed by fire.

Over the past decade, mountain pine beetles, boosted by mild winters, have devastated tens of millions of acres of forest across the American and Canadian West, and summer droughts have destroyed many more.