Samuel Rutzick: The GOP wants to use trees to fight climate change

Utah’s Rep. Blake Moore among the supporters of efforts to use forests and technology to deal with climate.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) This Aug. 1, 2011, photo, shows whitebark pine that have succumbed to mountain pine beetles through the Gros Ventre area east of Jackson Hole, Wyo. U.S. officials say climate change, beetles and a deadly fungus are imperiling the long-term survival of the high-elevation tree found in the western U.S.

Samuel Rutzick: The GOP wants to use trees to fight climate change

Utah’s Rep. Blake Moore among the supporters of efforts to use forests and technology to deal with climate.

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