Empire of the beetle : how human folly and a tiny bug are killing North America's great forests / Andrew Nikiforuk.
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Summary:
Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of bark beetle outbreaks killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico, resulting in one of the world's greatest forest die-offs since the deforestation of Europe by peasants between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. The author explains that helping this catastrophe to occur were misguided science, out-of-control logging, bad public policy, and 100 years of fire suppression.| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Age Hold Protection | Active/Create Date | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baker County Library | 634.9676 .N692e (Text) | 37814002569300 | NON-FICTION | Book | None | 06/07/2012 | Available | - |
Record details
- ISBN: 1553655109 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781553655107 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 230 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : David Suzuki Foundation : [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-218) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The Alaska storm -- The beetle, the bus, and the carbon castle -- The lodgepole tsunami -- The war against the insect enemy -- The wake of the beetle -- The ghost forest -- The song of the beetle -- The sheath-winged cosmos -- The two Dianas -- The parable of the worm. |
| Summary, etc.: | Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of bark beetle outbreaks killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico, resulting in one of the world's greatest forest die-offs since the deforestation of Europe by peasants between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. The author explains that helping this catastrophe to occur were misguided science, out-of-control logging, bad public policy, and 100 years of fire suppression. |
| Additional Physical Form available Note: | Issued also in electronic format. |
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| Subject: | Bark beetles > North America. Trees > Diseases and pests > North America. Beetles > Effect of forest management on > North America. Forest insects > Control > North America. |
