By KFBB News Team
A quick glance on any hilltop gives it away. The red, dead trees are sad reminders interrupting Montana’s picturesque wilderness. The Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic has progressed to a landscape level epidemic.
Kathy Bushnell of the Helena National Forest Service knows how sad people get watching their trees disappear one by one on a mass scale. "I know for a lot of people when they see the extent of the tree mortality, it's a very emotional thing for them,” she says.
Montana’s trees have proven defenseless as the Mountain Pine Beetle burrows deep inside their bark, cuts off the tree’s water supply and feeds off of vital nutrients. Authorities say it’s almost impossible to prevent a landscape level epidemic like this, especially when global warming may be a factor.
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