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[vc_row full_width=””][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]Since the late 1990s, the grain-of-rice-sized mountain pine beetle has attacked and killed more than 700 million cubic meters of pine trees in the inland forests of British Columbia, Canada\u2019s top lumber-producing province. That\u2019s equivalent to about 700 million standard telephone poles.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current estimate is that 60 percent of mature pine in B.C. has been killed or will be killed by the end of the decade,\u201d Rodger Hutchinson, a West Fraser vice president, said June 5 in a Bloomberg Television interview in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Read more from the report by Christopher Donville and Willem Marx.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Th Mountain Pine Beetle has attacked and killed more than 700 million cubic meters of pine trees in the inland forests of British Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1586,"featured_media":8456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1266,1256,1254,1160,1270,1272,1258,1264,1268,1260,1262],"class_list":["post-8470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","tag-beetle","tag-canada","tag-david-ryder","tag-environment","tag-environmental","tag-forest","tag-insect","tag-lumber","tag-nature","tag-pest","tag-timber","product-photos"],"yoast_head":"\nLittle Beetle, Big Problem | Bloomberg Media Distribution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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