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===Insects===
Recent years{{When|date=May 2021}} have seen outbreaks of insect pests in forest-destroying plagues: the spruce-bark beetle (''[[Dendroctonus rufipennis]]'') in [[Yukon]] and Alaska;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.colorado.edu/INSTAAR/AW2004/get_abstr.html?id=88 |title=A New Method to Reconstruct Bark Beetle Outbreaks |publisher=Colorado.edu |access-date=2011-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606091611/http://www.colorado.edu/INSTAAR/AW2004/get_abstr.html?id=88 |archive-date=2011-06-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the [[mountain pine beetle]] in [[British Columbia]]; the [[aspen]]-leaf miner; the [[larch sawfly]]; the [[spruce budworm]] (''[[Choristoneura fumiferana]]'');<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/subsite/budworm |title=Spruce budworm and sustainable management of the boreal forest |publisher=Cfs.nrcan.gc.ca |date=2007-12-05 |access-date=2011-02-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202122739/https://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/subsite/budworm |archive-date=2008-12-02 }}</ref> the spruce coneworm.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2006_chapin001.pdf|title=ALASKA'S CHANGING BOREAL FOREST|website=Fs.fed.us|access-date=2022-02-28}}</ref>