Observers await results of pine beetle experiment
By RMI Staff 
| August 5, 2009 | 10:11 AM
Pitkin County and Aspen city officials heard an update Tuesday on an experiment to halt the spread of pine beetles on Smuggler Mountain, but the real results won’t be known until the fall. From the Aspen Times:
The two governments, along with local conservation group For the Forest, funded a joint effort to remove 202 lodgepole pines infested with beetle larvae from city/county open space on Smuggler. The work, including airlifting felled trees to a central site on the mountain with the use of a helicopter, was done in late June and early July — apparently in time to get the problem trees off the mountain before the adult beetles flew off to lay their eggs in new trees, he said.
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