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Pine beetles: “A natural disaster in slow motion”

May 29, 2006
Source: Globe and Mail
Original storylink verified on May 29, 2006

Industry and government officials, who met in Calgary over the weekend to find ways to protect 2 million hectares of Alberta's forests from the blight, had flown to Williams Lake, which is at the heart of B.C.'s pine beetle outbreak, to see the devastation first-hand.

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