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CU-led Study Shows Pine Beetle Outbreak Buffers Watersheds From Nitrate Pollution

January 14, 2013

A research team involving several scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder has found an unexpected silver lining in the devastating pine beetle outbreaks ravaging the Western U.S.: Such events do not harm water quality in adjacent streams as scientists had previously believed. Full Story

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