Mar. 20—For 18 months, Paul Reimus has led the battle in his neighborhood against a resurgent bark beetle invading piñon trees. He and others have enjoyed a winter respite from the beetles, but that ...

Large parts of Colorado’s forests are experiencing a major infestation of Mountain Pine Beetles. Driving in the valleys of the Fraser or Gunnison rivers, or along I-70 west of the Eisenhower Tunnel, ...

Coloradans are sitting on top of a tinder box, and it’s not because Congress and the U.S. Forest Service haven’t been paying attention. Right now, 7.4 million trees on 1.5 million acres of national ...

DENVER – A national team will help the U.S. Forest Service manage the attack against the pine beetle infestation that has swept through about 2.5 million acres of forests in northern Colorado and ...

DENVER ” A new survey shows that bark beetles have killed another 400,000 acres of pine trees in Colorado, boosting to nearly 2 million acres the total area devastated by the outbreak first detected ...

Due to the winter storm in December 2025, there are many downed trees in North Idaho that are there for the taking by bark ...

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BILLINGS, Mont. – This story will ring a bell for Summit Countyresidents: Beetles smaller than a grain of rice continue to choke off and kill thousands of whitebark pine trees and other species in the ...

CLAUSTHAL-ZELLERFELD, Germany (AP) — Nestled in the spruce trees in the Harz mountains of northern Germany is a bark-eating pest not much bigger than a sesame seed. Known as "book printers" for the ...

STARKVILLE, Miss. (WJTV) – Officials with the Mississippi State University (MSU) Extension Service said landowners, who had ...

The Ctonoxylon spinifer Eggers, a bark beetle species found in a prohibited species of bark, was seized at DTW this year. Photo via U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. A potentially-devastating pest was ...

ALL green plants are food for other creatures! I am repeatedly reminded of this statement from one of my botany professors almost forty years ago. I really do not mind this statement as I am busy ...