Workers work to remove beetle-killed trees from the Medicine Bow National Forest in Wyoming last year. Photo courtesy, Medicine Bow National Forest.
Chad Plummer of the U.S. Forest Service downs a pine-beetle-infested lodgepole at Miller's Lake Campground in the Medicine Bow National Forest on Wednesday. The forest is dealing with a major infestation of the insect. Photo by Marc Ethier, Star-Tribune correspondent.
This is the first year that Michael Bernd has had to extensively maintain the wooded area around his three-acre property on Casper Mountain. Last year, Muddy Mountain saw a larger infestation of pine beetles killing trees. (Tim Kupsick/Star-Tribune)
As the only way a tree can defend itself from attack, pitch is being secreted as pine beetles infest the area near Michael Bernd's property on Casper Mountain. (Tim Kupsick/Star-Tribune)
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