More Trees To Fall in Napeague - This Time, Healthy Ones - as State Continues Battle Against Southern Pine Beetles - 27 East
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More Trees To Fall in Napeague -- This Time, Healthy Ones -- as State Continues Battle Against Southern Pine Beetles

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Southern pine beetles have left patches of browned trees, dead or dying from infestations, across Napeague. New York State Parks Department is going to start cutting health, uninfected trees this winter in an effort to stanch the spread of the bugs before they reach Hither Hills's forests.

Southern pine beetles have left patches of browned trees, dead or dying from infestations, across Napeague. New York State Parks Department is going to start cutting health, uninfected trees this winter in an effort to stanch the spread of the bugs before they reach Hither Hills's forests.

Southern pine beetles have left patches of browned trees, dead or dying from infestations, across Napeague. New York State Parks Department is going to start cutting health, uninfected trees this winter in an effort to stanch the spread of the bugs before they reach Hither Hills's forests.

Southern pine beetles have left patches of browned trees, dead or dying from infestations, across Napeague. New York State Parks Department is going to start cutting health, uninfected trees this winter in an effort to stanch the spread of the bugs before they reach Hither Hills's forests.

Southern pine beetles have left patches of browned trees, dead or dying from infestations, across Napeague. New York State Parks Department is going to start cutting health, uninfected trees this winter in an effort to stanch the spread of the bugs before they reach Hither Hills's forests.

Southern pine beetles have left patches of browned trees, dead or dying from infestations, across Napeague. New York State Parks Department is going to start cutting health, uninfected trees this winter in an effort to stanch the spread of the bugs before they reach Hither Hills's forests.

authorMichael Wright on Dec 21, 2022
As the blight of southern pine beetles sprawls across the pitch pine forests of Napeague, steadily browning out areas that should be evergreen, New York State is planning a new... more

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