| Bark Beetles Kill Millions of Acres of Trees in West |
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| Written by JIM ROBBINS, The New York Times | |
| Tuesday, 18 November 2008 | |
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On the side of a mountain on the outskirts of Montana’s capital city, loggers are racing against a beetle grub the size of a grain of rice.
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