{"id":519620,"date":"2010-04-07T17:38:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=6691"},"modified":"2010-04-07T17:38:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:38:27","slug":"company-turns-beetle-plagued-dead-forests-from-tragedy-into-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519620","title":{"rendered":"Company Turns Beetle-Plagued Dead Forests From Tragedy into Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The scale of the mountain pine beetle’s destruction of Western North American forests is almost unimaginable. Already more than half of the 5 million acres of lodgepole pine forests in Colorado have been destroyed, and 10’s of millions more acres across the Western U.S. and Canada are affected \u2014 with an estimated 40 million acres of lodgepole pine devastation in British Columbia alone.<\/p>\n

While this is a sad state of affairs \u2014 we could be witnessing the end of the western lodgepole pine forest as we know it \u2014 the huge amounts of dead wood left in the beetle’s path of destruction are finding a happy end as a source for renewable fuel.<\/p>\n

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The scale of the mountain pine beetle’s destruction of Western North American forests is almost unimaginable. Already more than half of the 5 million acres of lodgepole pine forests in Colorado have been destroyed, and 10’s of millions more acres across the Western U.S. and Canada are affected \u2014 with an estimated 40 million acres […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}