Reporting Beetle Trees
When you find pine trees infested with live Mountain Pine Beetle in any stage of development, please make an effort to count the infested trees, note their location and report them.
Reports can be made by the the Neighborhood Coordinator, the landowner, or the tree cutter. If we receive duplicate information, we should be able to recognize it and avoid counting the same trees multiple times.
Please include in your Beetle Trees Report:
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Name of reporting party. If you are a Neighborhood Coordinator, that's enough. All others: please provide contact information, email and phone number, in case we need added information.
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Neighborhood Number, if known.
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Location of the parcel where the infested trees were found. See below for methods of noting location.
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County, Larimer or Boulder, where the parcel is located.
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Date of the inspection. If additional infested trees are indentified at a later date, please file a new report with just the additional number of infested trees and the new date.
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Number of trees infested with live Mountain Pine Beetle in any stage of development. This includes ONLY HOT TREES identified this season, October, 2007 through June, 2008, and does not include trees killed by beetles in previous years.
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Number of trees treated to destroy live beetles.
Location is VITAL! Acceptable methods for noting the locations are any one of the following:
- The "R-Number" (BoCo) or "Schedule-Number" (LarCo) of the parcel where the beetle trees were found, or
- The "Parcel ID" (BoCo) or "Parcel Number" (LarCo) of the parcel where the beetle trees were found, or
- The address and owner's name (as shown on the Property Tax Statement from the County Assessor) of the parcel where the beetle trees were found.
When a Neighborhood Coordinator or other trained observer inspects a parcel and finds it to be free of live Mountain Pine Beetle, please file a report with "zero" for the number of infested trees so that we may track the progress of inspections.
You may email your report to me, Glen Patterson.
Thanks for your help with this effort, and good luck beetle-hunting!
Glenn Patterson, 303-747-2089