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Former U.S. Forest Service Deputy Chief Jim Furnish talks with retired agency employee Dave Mertz at a logging site in the Black Hills National Forest, on July 14, 2021, near Custer City, S.D. Across the U.S. West, more trees have been dying as climate change dramatically alters the landscape and leaves forests more susceptible to wildfire and pests. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Former U.S. Forest Service Deputy Chief Jim Furnish talks with retired agency employee Dave Mertz at a logging site in the Black Hills National Forest, on July 14, 2021, near Custer City, S.D. Across the U.S. West, more trees have been dying as climate change dramatically alters the landscape and leaves forests more susceptible to wildfire and pests. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

September 21, 2021

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Climate change, logging collide — and a forest shrinks
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Climate change, logging collide — and a forest shrinks

Looking down a hillside dotted with large stumps and nearly devoid of trees, a pair of retired U.S. Forest Service employees lamented logging policies they helped craft to deal with two harbingers of climate change -- pine beetles and wildfires.