UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation ...

The Bug That’s Eating the Woods.” “Small Pests, Big Problems: The Global Spread of Bark Beetles.” “Eighty-Nine Million Acres ...

Alberta’s long-term strategy is to log or burn most patches of forest that are dominated by mature pine trees and thus highly susceptible to the beetles. Its short-term strategy is to fight the ...

By James Taylor, CBS13 Photojournalist Click here for updates on this story DAVIS, California (KOVR) — Wildfires scorched more than a million acres in California last year, and the state Department of ...

BLACK FOREST, Colorado (KOAA ... The students planted a mix of spruce and Ponderosa pine trees, five seedlings each. “It all goes back to, they’re the next generation, and they’re ...

Stewards of the Yale Toumey Forest plan to take down many ... named the red pine scale, there. The pest kills the trees by latching onto them and extracting nutrients. Kyle Lombard, an official ...

The agency's annual forest ... trees may appear in shades of brown, red or gray, according to the report. Each region in Colorado faces a different threat. The report found that the mountain pine ...