eaten away

The changing climate brought a "red tide" to Prince George, and now this city in the forest is on the front lines of adapting to a warmer world. After watching their lumber livelihood destroyed by the pine beetle, residents are looking at ways to adapt and survive. The rest of Canada looks to Prince George for answers, because the beetles are on the move.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• cbc
• national
• global
• warming
• british
• columbia
• prince
• george
• pine
• beetle
• infestation
• forest
• logging
• climate
• change

[rensmaag]

@noleftturnunstoned bc has no shortage of forest fires...watch the news at all in the last decade? What did logging have to do with MPB? Forestry has been employing people in this province for a hundred years, and will continue to for hundreds more. How is that short-term employment?

[transdrole]

We must start planting other tree species from other continents and establishing the pollinators and pathogen-predators along with them. As our native trees are destroyed, we can replace them with other species that already have resistance to the temperatures and insects and fungi that we have imported.

[wind2jammer]

this has been happing in u.s since the late70s and early 80s and is still going on sadly

[noleftturnunstoned]

what BC needs is a forest fire. BC needs to limit it's logging. I don't understand why they allow the destruction of their forest for short term employment.

[zenarrrow]

That Judy Simms chick is kinda hot, in a old lady kinda way. None of the Pine Beatle videos on youtube have more than a few hundred views. kayne West being rude has more than 2 million in a few days.

[RisleyEquipment]

"Risley Equipment has developed an innovative method to control further spread of pine beetle populations with a product that chips the infected tree as a means to increase mortality rates and decrease the further reproduction of the beetle in the next season.

For more information see video " Risley Rolly Chipper" on YouTube"

[johnathanmootz]

well heres an idea log the dam trees use them for the dam reason they grow use the recources manage the forests the way it was ment to be befor the dam owl craze and the green peace idiots you people make it harder on us loggers to do our jobs and then you general puplic people worry or the pine trees o what will we do cut the dam things down and use the wood befor they rot

[nibelungensohn]

Bring in some woodpeckers.

[e9d9w9a9r9d9]

OMFG i saw that 4real!

(its a real prob)

[jewelscollin]

I have to 100% agree with you!! This is natures way of cleansing itself, its happened in the past, and it shall happen again!