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Blue Fungus, Red Forests

Pattern Playtime

Ages 2 & 3 with Adult
Discover patterns and shapes in nature. Hunt for stripes, circles, and squares on wild animals.

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Issues of Today: Impacts of the Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak

Join the Worldviews Network and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science for an immersive journey into the past, present and future of our forests.

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July 29, 2010
They're small -- about the size of a grain of rice -- but the tiny pine bark beetle has killed over three million acres of lodgepole pine in Colorado and Wyoming.

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Frank Krell explains how the combination of pine bark beetles, fungus, and people have turned many of the green forests in Colorado into a blanket of rust red.