West uses an airplane each summer to fly over all 24 million acres of forested land in Colorado. He visually inspects each acre to pinpoint problem spots where bark beetles may be moving in and ...

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

The U.S. Department of Justice has placed Colorado and the city of Denver on the receiving end of a civil lawsuit aimed at overturning Colorado's immigration laws. FOX31's Matt Mauro heard from ...

Colorado’s higher-altitude forests need ... West noted. Western balsam bark beetle, which attacks subalpine fir and other species, is still the deadliest forest pest, as distinguished from ...

The 2024 Report on the Health of Colorado’s Forests showed that bark beetles and other invasive insects expanded their forest footprint in a hot and dry 2024. The type of tree most affected was ...

A report from the Colorado State Forest Services showed that trees in Colorado's front range are being killed by bark beetles. FOX31's Ashley Michels spoke with an expert on how this can affect ...

Coloradans wondered if their beloved forests would ever recover from the onslaught of bark-boring pests ... survey of state trees from Colorado State University’s forestry departmen t. The notorious ...

The terrifying beetle-kill headlines from the mid-2010s ... if their beloved forests would ever recover from the onslaught of bark-boring pests, and if tourism would suffer a big bite.

Bark beetles and other insects are spreading through Colorado’s forests, leaving dead and dying trees in their wake – a cycle that could fuel future wildfires, according to an annual Colorado State ...