Pine Beetle Control in Northern Alberta.

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A worker retrieves a choker cable from a pile of trees infested with Mountain Pine Beetle that has been piled, waiting to be burnt, in an effort to control the epidemic sweeping across western Canada. Mountain Pine Beetle has already killed approximately 18.1 million hectares of pine forest in British Columbia.

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In order to kill the beetle, which burrows in between the bark and the cambiam of pine tree, all of the bark must be burnt off the trees. Around 25,000 British Columbian families have either lost their primary income, are at risk of doing so, or have been otherwise effected due to the effects of the pine beetle on the forest industry.

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Pine Beetle Control in Northern Alberta.

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