Colorado's Beetle Problem

http://www.newsweek.com/id/148297/

We saw it when we were there a few weeks ago, but this piece from Newsweek helps to put into perspective the beetle problem that is destroying forests in Colorado.

The landscape looked like fall colors were taking over, though on pines you know that's not the case. Within three years' time, a forest ranger told me and Dante, the forests would be gone. The morning we ran into the forest ranger, they had planted upwards of 800,000 new trees (forgive me, I forget what kind), but it's this tree that's impervious to beetle infestations and the hope for Colorado to restore what's being destroyed.