Did Greenpeace really cause the Pine beetle problem? (see details)

Did Greenpeace really cause the Pinebeetle problem? I recently went camping in B.C. and I couldn’t help but notice all of the dead red trees. When I asked around as to why this is, one of my campsite neighbors said that it was the Pinebeetle. He then went on to say that the Canadian goverment had a chance to nip this problem in the bud but Greenpeace stepped in at the last moment to stop it because the plan involved razing a couple square miles of perfectly good forest to stop their advance. And now because of it thousands of miles of square miles is now dying and its been costing the timber industry millions of dollars. And lots of little animals like chipmunks are now homeless. Also it must put pressure on the Logging companies to harvest all these dead trees.

Just wondering if this is true. ( The Greenpeace part)