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 29, 2018 | News, News/PR
The mountain pine beetle is native to Montana. It usually does not cause too much trouble, but an unseasonably warm winter 10 years ago allowed the beetle population to explode, which caused an epidemic never before seen in the area. “Sixty percent of that land...
by Web Editor | Dec 13, 2017 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service announced that an additional 27 million trees, mostly conifers, died throughout California since November 2016, bringing the total number of trees that have died due to drought and bark beetles to an historic 129 million on 8.9 million acres....
by Web Editor | Nov 10, 2017 | News, News/PR
Trees in California’s forests are dying at alarming rates, creating both problems and opportunities for rural communities and local economies with deep roots in the timber industry. The California Natural Resources Agency in mid-October issued a set of recommendations...
by Web Editor | Nov 3, 2017 | News, News/PR
Halloween is a great time to tell scary stories. I have one to tell you, about millions upon millions of gray ghosts blackened by fire, ravaged by insects and disease, or dead from lack of water. These are Oregon’s “zombie trees.” According to an analysis commissioned...