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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 24 > Canada’s north a petri dish for 2 plagues of warming - a highly flammable petri dish

Canada’s north a petri dish for 2 plagues of warming - a highly flammable petri dish

Beetles and fire worry scientists

By Charles J. Hanley / The Bulletin
August 24, 2009

HAINES JUNCTION, Yukon Territory " A veil of smoke settled over the forest in the shadow of the St. Elias Mountains, in a wilderness whose spruce trees stood tall and gray, a deathly gray even in the greenest heart of a Yukon summer.

"As far as the eye can see, it's all infested,"....

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