the pine beetle is into the juveniles you and your friends planted in the early 90's
years ago I worked with a foreman who had planted a road side piece in his rookie year. he was 10 years deep when I started planting. every year we drove past it he would point it out to the young planters and tell them all what a great planter he was or some shit like that. then about four or five years ago I was up there doing a cameo show and the pine beetle had killed every tree on that block. I laughed pretty hard.
about 9 years ago I was up on the plateau and I was no longer planting to tree lines. it was just one cut block to another. didnt make the news the same way the bowron did, justified via fear mongering. lot of big fir and spruce stumps in lots of those blocks. then the mills started to close and every one acted like they did not see it coming.
there a thread in there about newfies commenting on resource management, hippies and appropriate screen names. ;)
dont poke the wild life.
Just a speculative fiction. No cause for alarm.