War against tree bugs enlists unlikely fighters

In this March photo provided by SolTribe, Mike Uncapher, right, trains a group of participants in the Lakota Logging Project by teaching safety precautions and techniques involved in cutting down pine beetle-infested trees at Custer State Park in South Dakota.

SPEARFISH CANYON, S.D. (AP) — Joe Shark’s Native American heritage taught him to be leery of the timber industry on the South Dakota reservation where he grows apples and gooseberries, but a threat from an enemy no larger than a fingernail impelled him to grab a saw and join the logge...

Published: 05/07/2012