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Natural beetles, unnatural attacks

July 8, 2009

Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
blisterrust, globalwarming, mountainpinebeetle, whitebarkpine

Yesterday's New York Times ran a story titled, "Some See Beetle Attacks on Western Forests as a Natural Event" - a title that confuses if not completely misrepresents the beetle attack that is devastating our western forests.  In isolation, the...continued

The King is Dead

December 10, 2008

Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
blisterrust, endangeredspecies, globalwarming, mountainpinebeetle, whitebarkpine

Yesterday I told the story of whitebark pine as the king of its ecosystem - making reference to the enormous role it plays in its community and also to the following photograph which I described as a sylvan Shakespearean character,...continued

The Reign of Whitebark Pine

December 9, 2008

Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
blisterrust, endangeredspecies, globalwarming, mountainpinebeetle, whitebarkpine

Its not just any tree - you can tell from this picture. As my colleague, Niel Lawrence, remarked, it looks like a sylvan Oberon, King of the Fairies, sneaking up on Titania.  Found in harsh, high elevation locations in...continued

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Sylvia Fallon
Staff Scientist
Washington, DC
My interest in the natural world led me to study ecology and evolutionary biology, but...
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