Robin Rowland: Pine Beetles’ Move Up Threatens Western Forests: Study

With temperatures climbing from climate change, the mountain pine beetle is now moving to higher elevations on mountain slopes and is a “rising threat” to the whitebark pine, which is found mainly in the Rocky Mountains, coast range of B.C. and the northern U.S., says a new study.The report was published Monday by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.