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Beetles, wildfire: Double threat in warming world

August 24, 2009 By The Associated Press  CHARLES J. HANLEY (AP Special Correspondent)

HAINES JUNCTION, Yukon Territory (AP) — A veil of smoke settled over the forest in the shadow of the St. Elias Mountains, in a wilderness whose spruce trees stood tall and gray, a deathly gray even in the greenest heart of a Yukon summer.

"As far as the eye can see, it's all infested," forester Rob Legare said, looking out over the thick woods of the Alsek River valley.

Beetles and fire,...

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