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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Craig Welch / The Bulletin
November 14, 2011
SAWTOOTH RIDGE, Wash. — The bug lady scoots through stick-straight lodgepole and ponderosa, and marches uphill toward the gnarled trunk of a troubled species: the whitebark pine.
The ghostly conifers found on chilly, wind-swept peaks like this may well be among the earliest victims of a warming....
