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Originally Posted by Cottonwood
 The most beautiful ski mountain in the USA is now safe from bark beetles 
http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005141135
Baldy deemed safe from beetles
Forest Service says population has collapsed
by KATHERINE WUTZ
Bald Mountain won't be buzzed by beetle-fighting helicopters this summer, as Forest Service officials report that the Douglas fir bark beetle population has collapsed, meaning Baldy's trees are now out of extreme danger |
I saw that article. Remember those pics from summer before last that I posted? Well, hiking around up there you could see the little pieces of blotter paper laying around everywhere. There must have been hundreds of thousands of them like a hippie's dream come true.