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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The Pikes Peak Ranger District says highway pollution is killing evergreens on the Pikes Peak Highway.
People were worried that the bark beetle epidemic that has infested much of the Colorado Rockies was causing trees to die and turn red, but that’s not the case.
According to KOAA-TV ( ), Jeffrey Hovermale with the Pikes Peak Ranger District says the dying trees on Pikes Peak are firs and spruces, which are largely resistant to bark beetles.
. Hovermale says accumulations of mud, dirt, and dust from the half-million visitors up and down the highway each year have begun to choke some of the trees closest to the roadway.
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Information from: KOAA-TV,