It's not clear if the epidemic will hit ponderosa pines on the Front Range as viciously as it hit lodgepoles in the high country. Ryan Warner talks with Forest Service Entomologist Jeff Witcosky and Forester Chuck Dennis of the Colorado State Forest Service.
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