Plane to Spy on Beetles Eating Alaska Forest

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Entomologists say the infestation, which has wracked 1.4 million acres (570,000 hectares) of spruce forest on the Kenai Peninsula, appears to be winding down because the bugs' prime targets, old growth spruce trees, are mostly dead.

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