Colorado is a mixed bag. On the one hand, I have heard that bad forestry practices are what allowed the beetles to be able to spread so badly. On the other hand, pretty early on, normal people won out over environmentalists and changed the rules to allow logging of the dead trees.
There is a whole industry that has grown for the last ten years of companies turning these diseased trees into wood pellets for wood stoves and other products. When they started logging beetle kill trees about ten years ago, nobody thought there would be an industry outside of wood pellets, because the beetles stain the wood. But stained wood has become fashionable now, and so many companies use it.
I was told they basically have a two year window to get any useful lumber from a beetle-killed tree, but I don't know if that applies if they're going to turn the tree into pellets. On the other hand, if they're going to turn the tree into wood pellets, I don't know if it's worth in monetarily to go after trees that are very difficult to reach.