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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
August 11, 2006
They may just be the size of a match head, but in the course of a few days mountain pine beetles can overpower a towering lodgepole pine tree, eventually killing it.
In just six years or so, these beetles have swarmed through the lodgepole pines in the cooler elevations of the Three Sisters....