Beetles are ravaging Europe’s oldest forest. Is logging the answer?

[rangerrebew]

Beetles are ravaging Europe’s oldest forest. Is logging the answer?

By Erik StokstadDec. 5, 2017 , 3:30 PM

BIAŁOWIEŻA, POLAND—It’s a cool, gray day in early October, and the town of Białowieża in northeast Poland looks peaceful. But outside a three-star hotel, some two dozen environmental activists have gathered, wearing masks with a photo of Poland’s minister of the environment, Jan Szyszko, and white T-shirts that say “I’m a liar.” There’s a rumor that Szyszko is coming to town today. Just opposite the activists, a similar number of people hold banners supporting him, some wearing hard hats and safety vests and others in camouflage hunting outfits. Police cars are pulling up; an ambulance is parked nearby just in case.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/beetles-are-ravaging-europe-s-oldest-forest-logging-answer

[Free Vulcan]

Usually when plants get attacked by bugs they're stressed, diseased, or malnutritioned due to things like overcrowding or other factors that would necessitate, such as in this case, some thinning via logging to relieve that.

[dfwgator]

I blame Yoko.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Good, widespread fires over the millenia have kept the Sequoias thriving.

Should be ok for these younger trees as well.