After exm 3 Flashcards

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mountain pine beetle

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Huge outbreak in early 2000s
Lodgepole pine preferred is there host
Not frozen snap to kill them off

	Mass attack, overwhelm defenses of trees
	Secondary hosts (white bark pine, limber pine, PP)
2002: central BC and spread fast by 2009 hit all

Dense monoculture stands (lodgepole pine), all trees killed We didn’t cause, but made lots more ^ at right age for them
What about jack pine? Or eastern white pine?
	Lots research on jack  Jack is maybe more resistant? Not sure we don’t know if will keep moving though albert this way or not
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