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Projects & Initiatives: Resource Economics Project (BC)
June 21, 2007
Cookie-cutter responses to big problems have a way of
backfiring, with the cure often proving worse than the disease. The
response to the mountain pine beetle attack is a classic case in
point.
The beetles' shocking tear through our forests is often portrayed
in apocalyptic terms and with good reason. The pine tree-killing
bugs have ripped through British Columbia, are now well established
in Alberta, and on the cusp of entering the continent-wide boreal
forest.