Sentences with phrase «pine beetle»

Notably the court agreed that the government did not possess a compelling and substantial objective in issuing the cutting permits, since the proposed cutting sites were not economically viable, and the permits were not directed at preventing the spread of the mountain pine beetle.

This work is potentially important for those in BC whose water supplies draw from regions with mountain pine beetle infestations.

The pileated woodpecker is the main pine beetle predator, and it nests only in snags (large standing dead trees).

But there is no question that there are a lot of advantages to wood: we have lots of it, much of it is dying right now due to pine beetle infestation, it is renewable, and it stores carbon dioxide.

The mountain pine beetle in western North America, pp. 505 - 530 in: Dynamics of Forest Insect Populations., A.A. Berryman ed.

Here I'll try to give background on the issues related to bark beetle outbreaks, working from proximate to ultimate causes, and focusing on the one beetle species currently doing by far the most damage, the mountain pine beetle (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae.

White pines are the dominant conifer, but is there any evidence of lower risk from pine beetle infestations in forests that are half (or more) mixed deciduous?

Area burned in the western United States is unaffected by recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks.

Summertime climate response to mountain pine beetle disturbance in british columbia.

The mountain pine beetle is chewing its way through Canadian forests.

Wood construction sequesters carbon, uses a renewable resource, eats up some of that pine beetle infested lumber that will rot if we don't put it to work, and just looks so beautiful.

Outbreaks of the mountain pine beetle have been seen across western North America, with the beetle infestations destroying wide areas of the pine forest.

The pine beetle outbreaks in the US Rockies in the 1960s and 1980s were extreme, and may have been an early warning sign of trends to emerge later at higher elevations and latitudes.

In one case, an unprecedented loss of trees triggered by the pine beetle outbreak in western North America has decreased the net carbon balance on a scale comparable to British Columbia's current fossil fuel emissions

Glulam technology also uses scraps that are not big enough to use for other purposes, significantly reducing waste, and in this case, using up a serious amount of pine beetle damaged wood.

The furniture is made entirely out of blue pine wood in an attempt to raise awareness about the mountain pine beetle's devastating effect on the pine industry.

«During extreme fire weather that promotes high fire activity in the western United States, fuels are likely dry enough to promote extensive burning regardless of alterations to fuels due to [mountain pine beetle] infestation,» the Hart study found.

Tom Veblen, a professor of geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been involved in studying the effects of fire and mountain pine beetle outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains for 25 years.

If the pine beetle eats every pine in the forest then the non-pine trees will be left standing.

A 2009 study looked at conifer forests in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California after significant tree mortality, stemming from a pine beetle outbreak in 2002, was followed by fires in subsequent years.

Science and brawn are to - day work - ing together in systematic haste in the heart of the yellow - pine forests ofSouthern Oregon and Northern California to save ten billion feet of merchantable timber from the relentless ravages of the Western pine beetle, writes the New York «Outlook.»

For millennia the mountain pine beetle, a native of Canada, has been kept in check by our winter temperatures which reach minus 35 degrees for several days.

Warmer winters and unrelenting drought in western North America have led to a rampant mountain pine beetle outbreak, with no end in sight.

Reddish and brownish trees in this forest in Montana have been killed by the mountain pine beetle.

Lodgepole pine trees on millions of acres in Colorado and Wyoming are dying and will oxidize on the forest floor unless otherwise used, victims of a pine beetle infestation exacerbated by warming global temperatures.

The southern pine beetle is projected to be able to expand into vast areas of the northeastern US and southeastern Canada by 2050 posing risks to forest structure, biodiversity and associated ecosystem services.

The species Dr. Six was pointing out, the mountain pine beetle, has pushed farther north into Canada than ever recorded.

Latin name: Pinus virginiana Blue stain found in many sections of dead pines (both in the western and eastern U.S.) is caused by a fungus carried by a pine beetle.

This is why the mountain pine beetle has killed over 40 million acres of trees in the US and Canada.

The excess heat in the air can be linked to increased frequency of heat waves across the globe, wider distribution of insect pests (e.g., pine beetle in the northwest U.S.), and various health - related issues such as the spread of tropical diseases further north into the U.S.

Central California is especially vulnerable to wildfires due to a severe pine beetle infestation that, along with ongoing drought, has brought a high level of plant mortality to many areas in the region.

Mountain pine beetle and watershed hydrology.

The report states that western pine beetle activity has increased on the Sawmill - Liebre Ridge of the Angeles National Forest — where the Sand Fire is located — and that tree mortality «has been persistent in this area for the past 3 years, impacting hundreds of acres of forested land.»

He also recently led the implementation of the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) macro-scale hydrology model to investigate the effects of mountain pine beetle and salvage harvest operations within the Fraser River watershed.

The trees are falling victim to the pine beetle which thrives in drought conditions.

This panel concept provided an opportunity to use lumber from forests killed by the mountain pine beetle, a species native to North America.

Posted in News and Reports, Research Blogging, tagged AGU, alberta, arctic, british columbia, climate change, environment, global warming, jack pine, lodgepole pine, mountain pine beetle, science, sea ice on September 21, 2011 9 Comments»

Unfortunately — as the climate of the boreal forests warms more beetle larvae survive the winter months — large pine beetle outbreaks are no longer once in a century events.

The mountain pine beetle infestation, resulting from warming winters, has devastated the province's interior forest industry, closing mills and costing thousands of jobs.

For our research, we selected a 24 - year period between 1998 to 2010, when two major outbreaks of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) occurred, one circa 2001 to 2004, the other circa 2006 to 2010.

An outbreak of the mountain pine beetle in 2006 killed 5 million lodgepole pines in one year, a four-fold increase over 2005.

In the question and answer period, Dr. Flato noted that the different pathways of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations diverge near the middle of the century and Dr. Zwiers offered the climate - exacerbated spread of the mountain pine beetle as an example of an impact that we have already seen here in BC (PCIC scientists have recently authored two papers on the impacts of climate change on BC's forests, see here for more).

Schnorbus, M., K. Bennett and A. Werner, 2010: Quantifying the water resource impacts of mountain pine beetle and associated salvage harvest operations across a range of watershed scales: Hydrologic modeling of the Fraser River Basin.

This throws up loads of questions, like what makes pine beetle population «get out of control»?

Maybe other factors as well, but those are the two major factors that led to the pine beetle explosion.

There are naturally many places with quite mild winters, and it isn't just the pine beetle benefitting.

I am not arguing the point about invasive species being misrepresented or not, but thought I would point out one example quite reasonably associated with GW, and that is the severe outbreak of pine beetle in BC due to successive mild winters.

Eric thinks they will remember this if they go out hiking the next day and see a mountain pine beetle.

By 2007, it was difficult to deny the role of warmer winter temperatures in a mountain pine beetle epidemic that had already killed at least 530 million cubic metres of interior lodge - pole pine, with no end in sight.

Is the pine beetle a native insect?