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GRANBY, Colo.—The Grand County coroner says a forester was killed after a lodgepole pine fell on him.
Coroner Brenda Bock says motorists found 43-year-old Kevin Pellini outside his car Friday afternoon but officials don’t know when he died. Bock says the tree’s roots dislodged when it fell near Granby, about 85 miles northwest of Denver.
Bock says it’s possible the tree had been infested by pine beetles but that has not been determined.
Pellini was the owner of the tree-removing company Goldrun Forestry in Granby. He was a former maintenance supervisor in Rocky Mountain National Park but Bock says he was not cutting trees when the lodgepole fell on him.
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Information from: The Denver Post,
