Destroyed Forest (image)

US Geological Survey

Caption

Mountain pine beetles have killed pine trees across vast areas of western North America since the late 1990s. Image of the northern Williams Range, Colorado, where beetles have killed more than 80 percent of mature lodgepole pine over many square kilometers.

Credit

USGS

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