UNBC Gets Some Beetle Bucks

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UNBC is getting a chunk of money for more mountain pine beetle research.  This time the money will go towards looking at the impact on young tree stands.

The funding is part of $1.5 million announced by the Province for four mountain pine beetle research.  Three other projects sharing in the cash are:

• Thompson Rivers University conducting studies to better understand effects on hydrology when beetle-killed trees are no longer absorbing
  water from beneath the forest floor;
• the University of British Columbia testing if fertilization increases the ability of mature pine to resist beetle attack in lightly infested areas; and
• the Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada evaluating forest road construction techniques to improve access to attacked forests.
  

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