by Web Editor | Jul 11, 2018 | News, News/PR
The federal Bureau of Land Management wants to remove dead and dying trees from 35 California counties, from Siskiyou to Santa Barbara. The agency hasn’t yet identified specific parcels. But BLM forester Coreen Francis says the plan is to pay particular attention to...
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 15, 2017 | News, News/PR
While large fires have had dramatic impacts in some Pacific Northwest forests, only about 10 percent of the forested lands in the eastern Cascades have burned in the last 30 years, and young trees and dense forests are continuing to grow at a rate that outstrips...
by Web Editor | Aug 11, 2017 | News, News/PR
As the number of droughts increases globally, scientists are working to develop predictions of how future parched conditions will affect plants, especially trees. New results published today in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution by 62 scientists, led by Henry...