by Web Editor | Aug 13, 2018 | News, News/PR
Washington residents have reported uncharacteristically high numbers of dead and dying Douglas Fir trees to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) this spring and summer. The culprits: drought and bark beetles. The native bark beetle species do not...
by Web Editor | Apr 10, 2017 | News, News/PR
U.S. Forest Service officials said this month that the 20-year mountain pine beetle epidemic in the Black Hills has officially ended, but that doesn’t mean their fight against the tree-killing insects is over. In fact, an effort to limit the damage from the next...
by Web Editor | Mar 20, 2017 | News, News/PR
Considered one of the biggest causes of economic loss in forestry in the southeastern U.S., the southern pine beetle is a real threat to the region’s wood products industry. This year’s concerns stem from a record-setting drought in the area, which caused many...
by Web Editor | Sep 9, 2016 | News, News/PR
The nine forest specialists had expected to drive into the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest on a kind of a rescue mission. They never made it that Monday morning in August. Instead, they had to watch as wildfire swept through the very woods they hoped to save with...
by Web Editor | Jun 29, 2016 | News, News/PR
Wildfires destroyed at least 80 homes and threatened an additional 1,500 as flames tore through Central California’s rural communities Friday, according to authorities. The blaze broke out Thursday as temperatures rose to a 90-plus degrees F. dry heat, moving...