Drive out Lutak Road and you will see hundreds of evergreen trees that aren’t so green.
Southeast Alaska’s hemlock and spruce trees are fending off an assault by a number of pests and diseases, most notably a caterpillar that causes the conifers to turn reddish-brown.
“What we are seeing is multiple insects and some fungal diseases,” Haines state forester Greg Palmieri said in an email to the CVN. “All, at least as far as we…
