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  Over 30,000 acres of Engelmann spruce are dead or dying as a result of a spruce beetle epidemic. This extensive mortality is visible along many travel routes in the watershed and has created a fire safety concern for several mountain home subdivisions. Dealing with this epidemic has generated much discussion and many questions from the public, landowners and land management agencies alike. What is the best way to deal with spruce beetle? Do we let nature take its course or do we try to stop the outbreak? If we can’t stop it, how do we deal with the dead trees? Do we use techniques such as logging or prescribed fire to remove timber, or do we do nothing and leave dead timber as is? Cooperation among various publics, discussion of management alternatives and time will all play a role in spruce-beetle issues. View related panoramas; |
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