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There is some interesting new work carried out by researchers at Dartmouth College and the USDA Forest Service on the relationship between the Mountain Pine Beetle, major die-offs of forests in North America, and climate change.
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Plague of beetles arrived with the power to kill 100,000 trees a day. so many you could hear them over the phone. >> you could actually hear the beetles underneath the bark. i'm listening to my trees being killed. >> reporter: forest biologist janice cook has studied the invasion of mountain pine beetles for decades. just one effect of an overheating planet. >> warmer over winters and hotter, drier summers, we saw those populations not only rise to epidemic levels but in some areas hyperepidemic. >> they track a single tree like appear invading army. the lodge pole pine fills its cracks with t...
Convention in orlando. >> down here is one here that said 75%. at a normal time if the cost of building material were to increase by 75%, people would be coming unglued. but look what it is. most of them are 200% or more. >> reporter: there are a few reasons why, but the problem begins in the canadian rockies. one in almost every three boards hammered in american homes and where a plague of beetles arrived with the power to kill 100,000 trees a day, so many you could hear them over the phone. >> you could actually hear the beetles underneath the bark. i'm listening to my trees being killed. >>...