The Anchorage Parks and Recreation Department are continuing their fight against a little insect that is killing thousands of trees — and creating fuel for wildfires.
The department manages more than 11,000 acres of park land, and its director Mike Braniff said thousands of those acres are being impacted by the spruce bark beetle.
Braniff said one of the major concerns with the spruce bark beetle is wildfire risk, and that in the past four or five years Parks and Recreation lands have had two significant fires — one covering 26 acres, and one in 2022 damaging 13 acres, with dead spruce trees sustaining the fire. He said so far this year, crews have removed 2,000 dead trees, but the beetle’s level of production may dip next year.
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