Are Southern Utah’s high-elevation forests still at risk of a large bark beetle outbreak?

ST. GEORGE — Across the Markagunt Plateau, a volcanic field in Southern Utah, “skeleton trees,” killed by bark beetles in the mid-1990s and early 2,000s, stand tall and bare against the mountain sky. In many areas, saplings bring new life to the devastated landscape. The forest is regenerating, but is it still at risk? Jesse […]