Colorado has a vast population of lodgepole pines. a population of lodgepole pines have been killed in a section of the forest. what is a possible limiting factor of that population?

Devastation by the mountain pine beetle.

The mountain pine beetle is the limiting factor to the population of lodgepole pines in Colorado. It devastated large numbers of trees in the state and in the northern mountains of the United States.  

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