Posted AT 4:21 AM EST on 13/08/08
Saskatchewan on high alert for pine beetle
EDMONTON — From his office at the fringes of the boreal forest in northern Saskatchewan, Rory McIntosh is helping lead the Prairie province's charge to keep out millions of unwanted guests from the west.
The threat: the grain-sized mountain pine beetle, a forest pest that has already infested and killed billions of lodgepole pines in British Columbia and Alberta.
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