Monday, October 10, 2005

BC Replanting a Pine Monoculture

Sowing More Devastation

Lodgepole pine seedlings

BC created a doomed monoculture of pine. We're re-growing a lot of the same.

TheTyee.ca

[Last in a three-part series]

It might not be so bad if the only problem we had to worry about in BC's forests these days was the armies of mountain pine beetles that have killed millions of trees over an area roughly the size of Ireland.

Read on

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