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Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests
Empire of the Beetle How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests
Author: Andrew Nikiforuk
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 en...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781553655107
ISBN-10: 1553655109
Publication Date: 9/13/2011
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Greystone Books
Book Type: Paperback
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