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 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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 11—Though the focus of his expertise is firmly rooted underground, Victor Lucero spends many hours each year working for the ...

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 ...

Ponderosa pines show dieback caused by Ips bark beetles, which attack a wide variety of pines injured by fire or storms or weakened by drought. Bark beetles normally target trees that are struggling ...