Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests (David Suzuki Institute) - Nikiforuk, Andrew

As New; Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of bark beetle outbreaks unsettled the forests of 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. 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, with the advance of global warming, released the world's oldest forest manager from all natural constraints. 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.
As New
Soft cover
Greystone Books
2011
Vancouver, BC