Caterpillar Outbreak Threatens Trees in Northern Wisconsin

By Kate Houlihan

August 19, 2004

The Jackpine budworm is back, and it could spell doom for thousands of acres of pine trees up north.Kate Houlihan has the story from Superior…

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