How to kill a pine tree

An animated explanation of how the mountain pine beetle destroys a pine tree. The story starts with licking and ends, if you're a pine tree, in, you know, utter ruin.

For more about the pine-beetle blight, read Dorothy Bartoszewski's The bug that ate B.C., from our Spring 2008 issue.

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