Description: English: As mountain pine beetles damage whole regions of forest, some worry that the dead trees left behind have created a tinderbox ready to burn. But do pine beetles really increase
fire risk? In this short video, forest ecologist Phil Townsend uses
Landsat data -- and takes to the mountains near
Yellowstone -- to find out. Date: 8 September 2010. Source:
NASA Multimedia. Author: NASA.
