(Al Hartmann  |  The Salt Lake Tribune)  	
Sterling Brown of the Utah Farm Bureau watches as John Blazzard, owner of Blazzard Lumber, of Kamas, peels back a piece of bark on healthy looking Englemann spruce to reveal bark beetles. Blazzard led a tour of the Soapstone Basin area of the Uinta Mountains that showed dead and dying Englemann spruce forests. Blazzard believes that logging and other management could have prevented some wildfires. (Al Hartmann  |  The Salt Lake Tribune)  	
Members of the Utah Farm Bureau and local officials tour an Englemann spruce forest in the Uinta Mountains that was thinned twice in the past 50 years. (Al Hartmann  |  The Salt Lake Tribune)  	
John Blazzard, owner of Blazzard Lumber of Kamas, right, leads a tour with members of the Utah Farm Bureau and local officials to the Soapstone Basin area of the Uinta Mountains to show dead and dying Englemann spruce forests. He believes that logging and other management could have prevented some of Utah's wildfires. (Al Hartmann  |  The Salt Lake Tribune)  	
John Blazzard, owner of Blazzard Lumber of Kamas, shows members of the Utah Farm Bureau and local officials the Soapstone Basin area of the Uinta Mountains to show dead and dying Englemann spruce forests. He believes that logging and other management could have prevented some of Utah's wildfires. (Al Hartmann  |  The Salt Lake Tribune)  	
A mosaic of Englemann spruce forest shows various stages of dying from bark beetle infestation in the Soapstone Basin area of the Uinta Mountains. (Al Hartmann  |  The Salt Lake Tribune)  	
Bark beetles found beneath the bark of a seemingly healthy Englemann spruce in the Soapstone basin area of the Uinta Mountains. (Al Hartmann  |  The Salt Lake Tribune)  	
One of many dead Englemann spruce trees near the Wolf Creek picnic area and campground east of Woodland. The U.S Forest Service has painted the trees to mark their removal. (Al Hartmann  |  The Salt Lake Tribune)  	
Mosaic of Englemann spruce forest shows various stages of dying from bark beetles in the Soapstone Basin area of the Uinta Mountains.