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Chopper
The Forest Service and San Bernardino County are cutting some of the smaller trees that have multiplied in the absence of fire. This KMAX helicopter is hauling downed branches.
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Uploaded on Feb 16, 2011
Jeffrey Pine Beetle
Forest Service entomologist Tom Coleman points out a Jeffrey pine beetle in the bark of a Jeffrey pine.
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Uploaded on Feb 16, 2011
Flying branches
Tree limbs fly through the air as KMAX chopper piles them.
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Uploaded on Feb 16, 2011
The Living and The Dead
Eight years after the last bark beetle epidemic, the San Bernardino National Forest is still a patch work of living and dead trees.
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Uploaded on Feb 16, 2011
Living and Dead 2
This coupling of a live and dead tree illustrates how crowded the San Bernardino Nation Forest became after fires were suppressed.
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Uploaded on Feb 16, 2011
