To prepare for spring beetles, a well-known spot in San Gabriel Mountains is closing

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During the closure, ponderosa and some pine trees will be sprayed with an insecticide, if weather and other conditions allow.

A car enters Crystal Lake Recreation Area in National Angeles Forest on Friday, April 1, 2011. Caltrans has reopened State Route 39 from the West Fork to Crystal Lake Road, a segment of mountain highway that had been closed since 2002. Crystal Lake Recreation Area in the Angeles National Forest and San Gabriel Mountains National Monument will be temporarily closed starting Tuesday, April 9, possibly through Sunday, April 14, in an effort to save trees this spring.

The measure is necessary because soon adult Western pine beetles will exit dead trees in search of new trees to serve as hosts this spring, which will kill the trees. In the Crystal Lake area, nearly 200 trees have been killed primarily by drought and the Western pine beetle over the past several years.

 

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