Empire of the beetle : how human folly and a tiny bug are killing North America's great forests

Nikiforuk, Andrew 1955- (Author). David Suzuki Foundation (Added Author).

Summary: "Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico. Often appearing in masses larger than schools of killer whales, the beetles engineered one of the world's greatest forest die-offs since the deforestation of Europe by peasants between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries.

Record details

ISBN: 9781553655107
ISBN: 1553655109
ISBN: 9781553658948 (ebook)
Physical Description: print
230 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : David Suzuki Foundation : Greystone Books, c2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Co-published by the David Suzuki Foundation.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-218) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The Alaska storm -- The beetle, the bus, and the carbon castle -- The lodgepole tsunami -- The war against the insect enemy -- The wake of the beetle -- The ghost forest -- The song of the beetle -- The sheath-winged cosmos -- The two Dianas -- The parable of the worm.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Issued also in electronic format.