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1   Link   Colorado Forest Products
The Colorado Forest Products™ program gladly partners with Colorado Proud™ advocating the benefits of buying locally.
2   Link   Mountain Pine Beetle Information
Colorado State University Cooperative Extension Brochure on the Pine Beetle
3   Link   Mountain Pine Beetle Management Guide
The mountain pine beetle (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae , is the most aggressive and destructive insect affecting pines in western North America. It belongs to a group of insects known as bark beetles that feed in phloem tissue.
4   Link   Colorado State University Cooperative Extension Brochure on the Pine Beetle
Mountain pine beetle (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae, is native to the forests of western North America. Periodic outbreaks of the insect, previously called the Black Hills beetle or Rocky Mountain pine beetle, can result in losses of millions of trees.
5   Link   Federal Forest Health Management
The mountain pine beetle (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae , is the most aggressive and destructive insect affecting pines in western North America. It belongs to a group of insects known as bark beetles that feed in phloem tissue. Lodgepole and ponderosa pines are the primary hosts, but whitebark and limber pines also are attacked in the Rocky Mountain Region. Occasional hosts may include pinyon, bristlecone, and Scots pines.
6   Link   Bark Beetles of North America
Information and images of economically important beetles that feed on cambium layer or wood of living or recently killed trees and shrubs.
7   Link   The Bug Wood Network
The University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
8   Link   Rocky Mountain Wildfire Info
If you’re looking for information you can use to develop a local wildfire awareness or prevention campaign, you’ve come to the right place. On this page, you’ll find publications, factsheets, brochures, flyers, posters and a host of other information about wildland fire prevention and mitigation that you can localize or use “right out of the box.”
9   Link   Forest Insect and Disease Identification and Management Training Manual
The mountain pine beetle (MPB) is the most aggressive, persistent and destructive bark beetle in the United States and western Canada Lodgepole pine, ponderosa pine, whitebark pine, limber pine, and western white pine are most frequently killed in the Northern Region.
10   Link   Bureau of Land Management
The BLM is responsible for carrying out a variety of programs for the management and conservation, of resources on 256 million surface acres, as well as 700 million acres of subsurface mineral estate, These public lands make up about 13 percent of the total land surface of the United States and more than 40 percent of all land managed by the Federal government.
11   Link   Colorado State Forest Service
The Colorado State Forest (CSF) is a unique state trust property located in northern Colorado where forestry, grazing, recreation and wildlife coexist on a working landscape.
12   Link   Colorado Division of Forestry
The newly created Division monitors the health of all forests in the state, including national and private forests. The Division focuses on forest health, rather than on the revenue generated from forest activities.
13   Link   Colorado State Legislature
Colorado State Legislature information

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