Sap is the 'blood' of a tree, helping to move nutrients from the roots to the limbs. Some sap is not unusual, but excessive ...

A version of this article first appeared in The Panama City News Herald (NewsHerald.com) on July 11, 2019. We are 10 months post-Hurricane Michael, and just as we thought we had dealt with most of the ...

Mar. 29—Every year, John Formby spends weeks flying in a plane above New Mexico's forests, looking for trees with signs of insect damage and stress from heat and drought. The state forest health ...

PARADISE — Many people have heard of Butte County’s nefarious bark beetle, especially after November’s deadly Camp Fire, when the area was hit with a huge surplus of the pest, which fed off weakened ...

Bark beetles are continuing to cause widespread damage to Colorado’s forests, according to a new study. The annual aerial forest health survey, jointly conducted by the Colorado and U.S. Forest ...

Spruce Beetle damage in the San Juan National Forest in 2018. Bark beetle outbreaks have continued to grow in parts of Colorado, and climate change could make the situation worse. The State Forest ...

A spruce bark beetle infestation that began a few years ago in Southcentral Alaska is spreading in Anchorage, taking out hundreds of acres of trees, arborists and forest scientists say. “We’re cutting ...

Insects and drought are taking an increasing toll on Colorado’s forests, challenging the long-term sustainability and resiliency of the state’s roughly 24.5 million acres of forest, a new report says.