Spruce beetles, which resurge every few years in the region, eat away at trees and weaken them, making them more prone to toppling.
But as the dying trees lose their needles, there’s another, more urgent worry — that unstable trees might fall and hit people walking or camping underneath.
Two years ago, the city won a $300,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to do just that. Jeremy Zidek, a spokesperson from the state’s emergency management agency, said his office is working hard with the city to find state funds to cover the project, including all six high-priority sites. He said he hopes they can give Soldotna a solid answer in a week or two.
Local forester Mitch Michaud has helped Soldotna identify beetle kill trees in the past. He said there aren’t a lot of spruce trees the beetles have spared.It’s not just new mortality that scares foresters. Trees can fall any time — even years after they’re weakened and killed. Carmichael said the city’s been lucky so far to only have a few tree tops fall on people’s property, with minimal damage. Soldotna’s already done mitigation work in some places, felling spruce at the Swiftwater Campground just up the river.
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