In Arizona, surveyors found bark beetles have killed trees on about 300,000 acres this year, slightly more than a spike in 2013 but far less than a decade earlier.

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Mixtures of different defense substances: Spruce trees require various monoterpenes — typical components of resin — to combat bark beetles and the fungi associated with them. Specific defense ...

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Species include red oak, bur oak, white cedar, yellow birch, tamarack, black spruce and white pine. “Diversity is the superpower of the forest,” Dunham said.

The trees are already a fire risk with their thin bark and shallow roots. Otto says there were also more fires hundreds of years ago that would wipe out balsam fir and spruce.

Illegal logging had a severe impact on the tree’s population through the 19th and 20th centuries, as the trees’ remote habitat made them a prime target for lumber poaching. Fire has also served as a ...

Western balsam bark beetle, which attacks subalpine fir and other species, is still the deadliest forest pest, as distinguished from being the most widespread by acreage. The acres affected by the ...