This is a view on the western side of Rocky Mountain National Park. The forests have been devastated by bark beetle infestation due to the multi-year drought the American West has suffered in the last years. In a strange way, the forest is beautiful with a combination of orange/rust dead pines, grey pines which have lost their needles and combination of both making swaths appear almost purple in certain light. Interspersed are areas of lush green which are not pine. These forests were overgrown anyway contributing to the rapid spread of the infestation. A wildfire would completely take out this forest for miles and miles. Yet one more example of global warming.
