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GRANBY, Colo.—A group grappling with Colorado’s bark beetle epidemic is looking at its priorities if the U.S. Forest Service tries to slow down the infestation.
The Colorado Bark Beetle Cooperative is meeting in Granby to let the Forest Service know what it wants done. The group includes federal and local agencies, business leaders and residents of western and central Colorado.
The Forest Service will take suggestions and make decisions about treatments such as cutting down dead trees to prevent wildfires.
The Forest Service estimates that about 44 percent of Colorado’s 1.5 million acres of lodgepole pine trees are infected by the beetles.
