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Offering a Helping HandOffering a Helping Hand

It’s bad enough to lose a pine forest to mountain pine beetles. For private landowners with a small acreage, an added complication is trying to figure out how to deal with the aftermath.

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Bringing Back the Forest

Bringing Back the ForestThe beauty and tranquillity of Dave and Lois Merz’s cattle and grain ranch, with its pine forests and the Nechako River running through it, was once a welcome sight for visitors touring British Columbia by bus.

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Offering a Helping Hand (Word format)

Faster restoration of a damaged forest brings many benefits.
Gary Blattner

Bringing Back the Forest (Word format)

The Mountain Pine Beetle Initiative?s Private Forestlands Rehabilitation Program helps landowners get started on beetle control, and grow a healthy forest for the future.
Today, Dave and Lois Merz are watching a new forest grow.

 

Funding for replanting after mountain pine beetle damage (Word fomat)

 

 Justin Calof

Collaborative research will help foresters manage beetle outbreak (Word fomat)

 

 Mountain pine beetle

Map of mountain pine beetle infestation in British Columbia: 1962 - 2002

 

 Map of MPB infestation in British Columbia: 1962 - 2002
Federal Government approves another $1 million for mountain pine beetle research: Word format
 

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 mountain pine beetles

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 Research from the air

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 Field testing for mountain pine beetle

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 Looking under the bark

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