Crater Lake NP a showplace for mountain pine beetles

That's because the Whitebark Pine, a signature tree of the national park's landscape, is the beetles' target. Yes, Crater Lake is hardly alone in seeing its whitebark pines fall to the killing beetles' lifestyle. And armchair naturalists have got to remember, please, that the beetles' presence does not stop at the park boundary or even at Oregon's boundaries with Idaho, California and Washington. Read about Crater Lake here.

The timber sale described in this article isn't about meeting a public need. No sir. It's about corporate profit, and the taking of old-growth trees that Wild Nature planted tens of thousands of years ago. Here is a classic example of Wild Nature being seen only a as a "resource," a resource that can be plundered and harvested. The cry of "let this happen because it will generate jobs" is a smokescreen for the permanent taking of a forest. Damn.