by Web Editor | Apr 6, 2018 | News, News/PR
Spruce beetle activity continues to decline on the Rio Grande National Forest according to 2017 aerial survey data. The tiny bark beetles spread into 7,000 acres of uninfested forest last year, as compared to infesting 22,000 acres in 2016. They were still active on...
by Web Editor | Jan 27, 2017 | News, News/PR
Spruce beetle was the most damaging forest insect pest in Colorado for the fifth consecutive year, based on a 2016 forest health aerial survey conducted by the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Rocky Mountain Region. Douglas-fir...
by Web Editor | Nov 30, 2016 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that the U.S. Forest Service has identified an additional 36 million dead trees across California since its last aerial survey in May 2016. This brings the total number of dead trees since 2010 to over 102...
by Web Editor | Apr 20, 2016 | News, News/PR
An aerial view captures the sea of brown, painting a bleak picture of a huge jump in the tree mortality number. In 2015 the number of dead trees rose to an estimated record-high of 27.6 million trees in California, which makes the U.S. Forest Service flyover surveys...
by Web Editor | Jun 5, 2015 | News, News/PR
The bracken ferns already have come back strong, along with the wild irises and ground-hugging thimbleberries. But all around them are charred stumps and trees so badly scorched by last fall’s wildfire, known as the 36 Pit Fire, that they are dying. The fire,...