Beetles feast on trees in Bitterroot

By JOHN CRAMER of the Missoulian

HAMILTON - The mountain pine beetle gets most of the blame for killing vast swaths of evergreens across the West.

But there's another tree-munching insect that's causing trouble in the Bitterroot Valley by taking advantage of the growing number of new residents who mistakenly thin their pine stands in the spring.

Link to full Missoulian article.