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FORT COLLINS — Bark beetles that have killed millions of acres of lodgepole pines throughout the West have been found in pines in Fort Collins.
Experts haven’t determined how the beetles jumped from the Continental Divide around Cameron Pass and Rocky Mountain National Park to the city, apparently without harming pines in the Poudre Canyon. Beetles can typically fly up to a mile.
City forester Tim Buchanan said trees have been hit in all parts of Fort Collins. He said most of the trees are non-native Scotch pine, but some native ponderosa pines also have been attacked.
Buchanan said the beetles will not spread any more this year because they are no longer flying from tree to tree.
“The vast majority of the trees will be fine,” he said.
