anyone who contributes in such a way. I have friends who were recently in Alberta and the Northwest Territories, studying the southwest-to-northeast spread of pine beetles currently consuming the Boreal Forest, due to the rising temperatures. My friends have shown me the mapping areas where there are massive swaths of newly dead forests....hundreds of kms of dead trees, all within the last few years. Very scary... It's no longer just British Columbia's problem. The spread is expected to reach Eastern Canada, eventually. I have friends who were recently in Alberta and the Northwest Territories, studying the southwest-to-northeast spread of pine beetles currently consuming the Boreal Forest, due to the rising temperatures. My friends have shown me the mapping areas where there are massive swaths of newly dead forests....hundreds of kms of dead trees, all within the last few years. Very scary... It's no longer just British Columbia's problem. The spread is expected to reach Eastern Canada, eventually. A major consequence of the pine beetle devastation is that the damaged forests are especially prone to forest fire. I've heard that a number of mills in BC have been built or retrofitted specifically to process pine beetle infected wood.