top left & right: dead pines near
Wells, BC;
bottom left: beetle "galleries" under bark;
bottom right:
pitchpockets in dead Lodgepole pine,
near
Cariboo Falls, Bowron
Lakes Provincial Park.
photos by Bill Horne.
map of the epidemic
Recommended reading:
Empire of the Beetle - How Human Folly and
a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests
by Andrew
Nikiforuk
Claire is mentioned in the chapter on art, along with Annerose
Georgeson and Peter von Tiesenhausen.
back to Claire's art
Message from the beetle blog covering art exhibits in Spain, Hungary & Banff, Alberta at International Union of Forest Research Organization (IUFRO) & Spanish Plant Pathology Society conferences.
