Pine beetle puts Grizzlies back on endangered list

Brown area = dead pines

Dead pine trees now cover the west all the way to just north of the Canada border.  Billions of dead trees.  Loss of forest that rivals the clearing of the Amazon, maybe exceeds it. Pine tree beetles can not survive multiple severe freezes.  Years of ever warming winters allowed a population explosion that is altering North America.  Drive to New Mexico, Montana, it breaks your heart to see whole mountains of dead pines.  Get close to the tree and you see sawdust at the base, holes in the trunk, this is the leading edge of a dying ecosystem.

Pine nuts feed lots of animals, birds and porcupines, chipmunks, even bears. Most of the critters that live off them feed the wolf, badger, coyote, fox, eagle, owl, bear, martin, mink, wolverine.   Bears in the hardest hit areas are going hungry with the  the health problems and migration that come with that.  For this reason the Grizzly in recent days was returned to the endangered list.

Without the pine, its erosion prevention, it's cooling and air filtering, it's shade, it's shelter, the Rockies and all the west will grow hotter and dryer with faster snow melts, flash floods.  Spray can protect the pines, but it's an impossible task, spray all the western pines, not enough equipment or chemical is available nor is it safe.  The only hope is a return to cold winters, or a new promising decoy pheromone that leads males to mate with a pile of goo, but that too will require a near impossible network of distributors to dab girl bug stink on a half dozen trees per acre each year, but it could work in limited areas if the pheromone is made in volume, and if government and landowners and foresters are willing to buy it.

The whole of the Rockies should be put on the endangered list, this is alters the whole ecosystem.   Are you doing anything, even a small thing, about this?