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What is beetle-kill pine?

There are many different species of beetles that burrow into many different species of conifers to lay their eggs. If the trees are healthy, they expel most of the beetles with their sap. If the trees are overcrowded and/or weak from drought, they can't repel the beetles, and the tree dies. This is happening all over Colorado right now, particularly in Grand County and Jackson County, next door to Dan in Larimer County. Search Google for:
grand county beetle kill
to get the latest information, news stories and pictures of this most recent infestation. This always happens in cycles every few years, but recently it has been particularly bad in Colorado due to forests weakened from drought, and 100 years of wildfire supression.

Pine beetles do give us one bright side to the sad story (while keeping in mind that cycles of beetle-killed conifers are completely natural) -- the beetles carry various fungi with them into the tree, and as the tree dies these fungi stain the wood in incredible shades of gray, blue, purple, brown and black!

The beetle-kill wood that we use for our fly fishing furniture is usually Western Yellow Pine (aka Ponderosa Pine).

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