1 Tree-Killing Outbreak Is Over In Colorado, 2nd Still Going

DENVER (AP) – Forestry experts say the mountain pine beetle epidemic that ravaged Colorado’s lodgepole pines for two decades is over, but a second bug that attacks spruce trees is still spreading.
A yearly report on the state’s forests released Thursday also had good news about aspen trees, which splash mountainsides with bright colors every autumn: They’re generally faring well after suffering worrisome die-offs from drought in previous years.
Beetle-killed trees (credit