Pine Beetles: An Opportunity for Green Building What is pine
beetle wood, why is it a green choice, and why should CSU’s
building comity care? Pine beetle wood is the victim of a small
insect, smaller than a grain of rice, those burros deep within
to lay eggs and inadvertently kill the tree. This epidemic is
especially evident in Colorado because the most common trees
attacked are none other than pine trees currently scattered
across the Rocky Mountains. As the evergreen hue of the Mountain
side slowly shifts to a brown maroon color it is evident that
not all is well in the woods. Although this is a sad situation,
what in the world does it have to do with CSU and its building
comity? The wood presents an interesting opportunity, fully
a-lined with CSU’s green ideals. It is a green choice because
the wood in question is already dead, so live potential wood is
not affected. It is also green because if the wood is left
untouched then it will just rot away and why not take advantage
of the situation and make the