mountain pine beetle, Tag

As climate change warms areas of Colorado, mountain pine beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosae) have infested lodgepole pines and drastically reduced their numbers...

Kirei’s new recycled millwork panel collection boldly illustrates the phrase “one man’s trash is another’s treasure”. The Pacific Coastal Collection of redwood and blue pine millwork panels are built using falloff...

One of the coolest finds we spotted at last week’s Dwell on Design was this line of iPhone accessories made by Bad Beetle out of the dead remains of trees infected by the Mountain Pine Beetle...

Read the rest of Chris Drury’s “Carbon Sink” Art Installation Strikes Nerve of Wyoming Coal Industry Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Art controversy, Art protest, caol art, carbon...

Yeegads. The serial regurgitation in media is impressive.  Here’s the money quote: And the new research dispels the notion that beetle-killed trees present no greater fire danger than live ones, a theory that had gained...

Cause and effect, or correlation not causation? Press release Via Eurekalert: Climate change causing demise of lodgepole pine in western North America CORVALLIS, Ore...

Colorado-based company I’ve Got Wood transforms trees killed by the mountain pine beetle into these amazingly intricate lampshades. The salvaged wood in their “beetle kill pine” collection features a distinctive...

In recent years global warming has lent a hand in increasing the population of the Mountain Pine Beetle, which has been wreaking havoc on acres of woodland area, giving way to a surplus of diseased, buckling, blue-stained...