Inter Press Service: The sheer magnitude of the devastation left by this tiny beetle is shocking on its own. “The pine beetle kill”, as it’s known to British Columbians, refers to the millions of hectares of trees left for dead in the wake of the voracious insect. Forestry officials in Canada’s westernmost province estimate the volume of wood lost to be around 620 million cubic metres – roughly equivalent to 15 million logging truck loads. According to a B.C. Ministry of Forests report, roughly …