by Web Editor | Mar 27, 2015 | News, News/PR
Mountain pine beetles have left vast tracts of dead, dry trees in the West, raising fears that they’re more vulnerable to wildfire outbreaks, but a new study found no evidence that beetle-infested forests are more likely to burn than healthy ones. In a paper...
by Web Editor | Feb 13, 2015 | News, News/PR
National forest officials in Colorado and Wyoming said Monday that they plan to reopen more campgrounds and change tactics as a massive outbreak of the mountain pine beetle wanes. Workers will now turn their attention more toward removing dead trees to prevent them...
by Web Editor | Dec 8, 2014 | News, News/PR
A tiny pine beetle that has wiped out tens of millions of acres of forest in the western United States and Canada could be close to invading Minnesota’s majestic pines. Although the mountain pine beetle is about the size of a grain of sand, they have devoured 45...
by Web Editor | Feb 5, 2014 | News, News/PR
There’s good news and bad news for Colorado forests, according to state and federal officials, who said last week that the mountain pine beetle epidemic slowed dramatically in 2013, while spruce beetles continued to spread. Statewide, mountain pine beetles were active...
by Web Editor | Nov 28, 2012 | News, News/PR
Officials with the Bureau of Land Management are preparing an environmental assessment as part of a plan to salvage timber burned last summer in a wildfire in west-central Idaho. BLM officials want to log about 10 million board feet on 940 acres in the John Day...
