FILE - This July 5, 2005 file photo, shows pine trees in the White River National Forest near Frisco, Colo. Mountain pine beetles have left vast tracts of dead, dry trees in the West, raising fears of far-reaching wildfires, but a 2015 University of Colorado study has found no evidence the bugs are making fires spread farther. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

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Report says beetles don’t make forests more likely to burn

• By ncs-import
• March 25, 2015