18 Jan Pine beetle ruination threatens treaty deal: Infestation has destroyed 80 per cent of forest (The Vancouver Sun)
The pine beetle has already taken its toll on B.C. forests. Now it’s threatening even more. Years of work to conclude a treaty with the Yekooche First Nation, a small remote community in northern B.C., is back to square one because the original agreement centred around a forestry industry now decimated by the beetle… go to article