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bark beetle |
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It builds soil; reduces the threat of bark beetle and other insects, mistletoe, and disease; reduces threat of catastrophic fire; puts moisture and nutrients into faster-growing, better quality/more valuable stems; increases grasses and forbs for grazing; permanently stores more carbon; and encourages natural regeneration from seeds of the higher-quality residuals. Wrightwood buildings generally have composite shingles rather than wood shingles, its weather had not been as dry as in the San Bernardino Mountains and the types of trees around it face a different, less numerous and less aggressive sort of bark beetle than trees in the San Bernardino Mountains, the survey said. At sites across four states, a team headed by David Breshears of the University of Arizona in Tucson found that 40 to 80 percent of the pine nut-producing trees died during the drought and its plague of bark beetles. |
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