There has been a recent increase in pine tree deaths reported in a swath extending from Tallahassee heading north to ...

Alias: Mountain Pine Beetle, or Pine Borer. Adults are quarder-inch long black beetles. The larvae are white and can be found under the bark when peeled back. Both adults and larvae live under the ...

Canadian forests are being hit hard by an outbreak of the mountain pine beetle. Though the beetles are small — less than 1/3 of an inch long — they are very hungry, boring through the wood of a ...

The Colorado State Forest Service and its federal counterpart flew over 36.6 million acres of the state’s forests in 2023 to assess its health. Despite last year being wetter and cooler, forest pests ...

The mountain pine beetle infestation that has ravaged forests in the western United States and Canada in recent years appears to be losing its grip. Green saplings are rejuvenating previously ...

Around every corner of Oklahoma City there seems to be a pine tree that is completely dead or close to it. So what is responsible for all of these brown, crunchy trees? It can be narrowed down to two ...

The terrifying beetle-kill headlines from the mid-2010s were as relentless and depressing as the swaths of rust-red dead lodgepole on your favorite drives or hikes in Grand County. Coloradans wondered ...

"Traditionally, a lodgepole pine gets old, the mountain pine beetle kills it, lightning strikes the dead tree and the forest would burn," Kendley said. "The fire releases the seeds from the lodgepole ...

From tree-killing beetles to plants that cause burns, New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is warning ...

I have been trying to spend a little more time at the lake these past couple of months. My friend Ed and I are trying to learn to catch fish on the 72,000 acres of Strom Thurmond reservoir. So far, we ...