Editorial: Beetles don't respect borders

One problem — among the many — with mountain pine beetles is they don’t respect borders. 
The interprovincial boundary didn’t matter 11 years ago when a plague of the pests was devouring swaths of British Columbia’s forest thanks to a laggardly response in that province from industry and government to an infestation starting in the mid-’90s.
In 2006, swarms of wind-borne beetles flew eastward into west-central Alberta. Since that initial invasion, Alberta