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Today, Canada is battling a bark beetle outbreak that started in B.C. back in the 1990s. Since then, Natural Resources Canada says that the mountain pine beetle — a species of bark beetle that lives in the U.S. and Canada — has affected more than 18 million hectares of forest. You have bugs like the mountain pine beetle eating pine trees out West, and with the droughts, you get forest fires, said Séguin. Now, we have more fire specialists than ever in the Canadian Forest Service because our forests are burning quite a bit.   Mountain pine beetles have devastated forested areas around Hinton, Alta. Current efforts to control the beetle s spread are directed at removing and burning infested trees or harvesting them. (Government of Alberta)

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