Alberta, CanadaTo learn how far pine beetles ... They’re flourishing farther north and at higher elevations, invading pine trees, such as jack pine and whitebark, that had rarely seen them ...

Bark on the jack pine is dark to medium gray, thin and flaky when young and features thick plates in older trees. This tree growth irregularly and can produce between one and three whorls of side ...

The core lands of Ford Forest are a 3,700-acre mosaic divided about equally into the Baraga Plains tract and Ford property in and around Alberta Village. Sandy outwash plains dominated by jack pine ..