by Web Editor | Jun 4, 2018 | News, News/PR
Forestry officials have announced the highly destructive emerald ash borer has been discovered in Maine for the first time. Responsible for the deaths of millions of trees in the U.S. and Canada, the emerald ash borer was known to be expanding across the border in New...
by Web Editor | Sep 7, 2016 | News, News/PR
Covering more than one-third of the United States, our forests are the cornerstone of American industry, infrastructure, health and well-being. Nowadays, America’s trees and forests are under attack; threats include catastrophic wildfire, forests being broken into...
by Web Editor | May 20, 2016 | News, News/PR
When Gary Lovett was studying the effect of acid rain in New York’s Catskill Mountains 20 years ago, he ended the experiment early because so many trees in the test plots were dying — not from acid rain, but from attacks by forest pests. “I consider air...
by Web Editor | Oct 6, 2014 | News, News/PR
Forests in the Northwoods and Upper Peninsula may look different in the next century thanks to a warming climate. A new report from the U.S. Forest Service predicts fewer of some types of conifers and more hardwoods in northern forests. A new analysis of climate data...
by Web Editor | Jul 22, 2013 | News, News/PR
Beginning with early colonists who landed in the New World loaded with dreams, grit and perhaps the continent’s first alien forest pests, and continuing today with the expansion of global trade, the northeastern United States has been ground zero for damaging...