Word: tetons
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...shift was partly brought about by the mountain pine beetle, which is destroying lodgepole pines in unprecedented numbers in the Wyoming-Idaho-Montana area that includes Yellowstone National Park (now celebrating its 100th year), Grand Teton National Park, Teton National Forest and Targhee National Forest. In Targhee, the Forest Service waged a $9,000,000, six-year battle against the pest-and lost. Chemical sprays did kill the beetles, but at an estimated cost of $4 per tree the battle became uneconomical. In a forest that once contained 3 billion board feet of timber, only half now remains; the value...
...Grand Teton, the Park Service plans a highly visible burn near Jackson Hole, Wyo., to test public reaction and begin the re-education process. Says Grand Teton Research Biologist Lloyd Loope: "We haven't so much an epidemic of mountain pine beetles as of overmature lodgepole pines." He warns that if the policy of putting out all fires is continued, there will be periodic insect infestations, like the endemic pine beetle problem, as well as a decrease in the diversity of p.ants, animals and birds. Loope believes that allowing natural fires to burn...