Articles from the August 15, 2006 edition

Jim Anderson, Correspondent|Updated Aug 15, 2006

Listen, you can hear them! They're singing, cheering, and grinning from ear-to-ear: "There's been a fire!" they're all shouting, "Let's go!" A little anthropomorphic perhaps, but beetles and every other creature that depends on fire living in the forest around Sisters may, in their way, be cheering. Without a fire that kills and maims millions of trees and shrubs, long-horned wood-boring beetles (not really "horns" but antennae) in the family Cerambycidae and their close cousins, the beautiful metallic wood-boring Buprestid... Full story