Tag: beetle

  • Beetle-Kill Fuels Bioenergy

    - by Kel­ly Hat­ton, July 17, 2014, West­ern Confluence On a morn­ing in ear­ly March, I ride with Cody Neff, own­er of West Range Recla­ma­tion (WRR), in his truck from Frisco, Col­orado, to the company’s near­by work­site in the White Riv­er Nation­al For­est. Light is just start­ing to reach over the high snow-cov­ered slopes sur­round­ing Frisco, but Neff…

  • Cutting the Trees We Need to Save the Forest

    -  by Bob Berwyn, July 7, 2014, The Col­orado Independent Even here, in a cool for­est hol­low near Ten­mile Creek, you can feel the tom-toms. It’s a dis­tant beat, born in the mar­bled halls of Con­gress, where polit­i­cal forces blow an ill wind across Colorado’s forests. Near­ly every West­ern elect­ed offi­cial with a clump of shrub­by…