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000438148 1001_ $$aNikiforuk, Andrew,$$d1955-
000438148 24510 $$aEmpire of the beetle$$h[electronic resource] :$$bhow human folly and a tiny bug are killing North America's great forests /$$cAndrew Nikiforuk.
000438148 260__ $$aVancouver :$$bDavid Suzuki Foundation :$$bGreystone Book,$$c2011.
000438148 300__ $$a1 online resource (230 p.) :$$bill., map, port.
000438148 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000438148 5050_ $$aThe 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.
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000438148 520__ $$a"Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico. Often appearing in masses larger than schools of killer whales, the beetles engineered one of the world's greatest forest die-offs since the deforestation of Europe by peasants between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries.  The beetle didn't act alone. Misguided science, out-of-control logging, bad public policy, and a hundred years of fire suppression created a volatile geography that released the world's oldest forest manager from all natural constraints. Like most human empires, the beetles exploded wildly and then crashed, leaving in their wake grieving landowners, humbled scientists, hungry animals, and altered watersheds. Although climate change triggered this complex event, human arrogance assuredly set the table. With little warning, an ancient insect pointedly exposed the frailty of seemingly stable manmade landscapes. And despite the billions of public dollars spent on control efforts, the beetles burn away like a fire that can't be put out.  Drawing on first-hand accounts from entomologists, botanists, foresters, and rural residents, award-winning journalist Andrew Nikiforuk investigates this unprecedented beetle plague, its startling implications, and the lessons it holds."--pub. desc.
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000438148 650_0 $$aBark beetles$$zNorth America.
000438148 650_0 $$aTrees$$xDiseases and pests$$zNorth America.
000438148 650_0 $$aBeetles$$xEffect of forest management on$$zNorth America.
000438148 650_0 $$aForest insects$$xControl$$zNorth America.
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