Beetle-ravaged forests prompt campground closures in Rockies

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Dead bark beetles are displayed next to a penny in the Wyatt Williamss lab at Boise State University in Boise Idaho in this Aug. 242006 file photo. As bark beetles ravage millions of trees across the West U.S. Forest Service officials in Colorado and ...
Dead bark beetles are displayed next to a penny in the Wyatt Williams's lab at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho, in this Aug. 24,2006, file photo. As bark beetles ravage millions of trees across the West, U.S. Forest Service officials in Colorado and Wyoming have closed some popular campgrounds out of concern the infested trees will come crashing down on visitors. (AP Photo/Troy Maben)

(AP) -- Vacationers will have fewer places to pitch their tents this summer in Colorado and Wyoming, and they can place the blame on bugs. The U.S. Forest Service has closed some popular campgrounds in the two states because of concern that trees killed by the bark beetles that are ravaging forests across the West could topple onto unsuspecting visitors.


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