| What You Can Do to Maintain Your Forest's Health | |||
| Inspect your trees at least twice a year. | Use the BeetleBuster flip chart as your guide. If you have questions, email us at: beetlebusters @gmail.com |
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| Spray your favorite trees or apply verbanone patches. | Beetlebusters will recommend local companies to spray trees. Watch your Pine Brook Hills News for information on special deals for BVMFPD residents. Verbenone pouches can be purchased through Contech Enterprises, a manufacturer and distributor of Verbenone. You can order individual pouches on their website: www.contech-inc.com |
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| Thin the forest but don't do any nonessential trimming of trees during the beetle's flight season | Ah, the smell of freshly cut wood. Nothing like it to attract MPB to your trees. Want to check the life cycles of our beetles? Click here. |
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| Clean up slash and downed tree limbs | Slash is a favorite breeding ground of Ips. Click here. | ||
| Start a new forest | This article tells you how to get free seedling trees and nurture them. | ||
Our goal is to mitigate the devastation caused by the bark beetle epidemic in Colorado. We offer the latest information and advice to the residents of the Boulder Mountain Fire Protection District (BMFPD). We show home owners how to identify the signs of bark beelte infestation and recommend methods of combating the epidemic. We are working towards achieving a healthy forest. Click here to read the County publication, "A Northern Front Range Landowner Guide to Living with Bark Beetles." Click here to read the latest BeetleBuster Bulletin. Click here to read all the BeetleBuster Bulletins. | |||