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VIEWPOINT: Wood boring beetles attacking Shuswap forests

Shuswap Passion by Jim Cooperman

As climate chaos intensifies, B.C.’s forests are changing rapidly and not for the better as fires, drought, insects and diseases take their toll.

Just one kilometre up our road there is an Old Growth Management Area where most of the mature and older Douglas fir trees managed to escape last year’s firestorm. Recently I noticed there are green insect traps hanging from branches there, that a local forester explained were part of a research project on longhorn beetles.