The spruce beetle, which has significantly damaged the Rio Grande National Forest, is rapidly making inroads into the San Juan National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service held a meeting this week to kick ...
U.S. Forest Service Damage done by spruce beetles that have killed large numbers of trees is seen in 2013 near Lake San Cristobal in Colorado's San Juan National Forest, during a U.S. Forest Service ...
The devastating spruce beetle infestation in the San Juan Mountains has crossed the Continental Divide, and within the next few years, will spread into the high country around Durango and Silverton, ...
Shiny black, bark-eating spruce beetles that kill trees are spreading northward through Colorado’s compromised forests, infesting another 136,000 acres this past year — worsening damage across 1.7 ...
Aspen discoloration caused by Marssonina leaf blight on the Grand Mesa National Forest, Colorado. A good place to check on the health of Colorado’s forests is from the air. That's why the U.S. Forest ...
Spruce beetles have already affected about 40% of spruce firs in Colorado, leaving their mark on hundreds of thousands of acres of conifer forest. As temperatures increase, researchers at Colorado ...
DENVER (AP) — One type of tree-killing beetle is attacking Colorado forests at a faster pace, but another is slowing down, mostly because it's running out of live trees to infest, officials said ...
CHEYENNE, Wyo.—An outbreak of spruce beetles continues to accelerate across hundreds of square miles of new forest in Colorado, although a much larger outbreak of the similar mountain pine beetle ...
The spruce bark beetle heads north as biologists and foresters work to slow their destructive spread
Sep 19, 2021 Sep 19, 2021 Updated Oct 24, 2022 An epidemic is creeping into Interior Alaska, but it is not attacking people. It is killing forests filled with mature white spruce trees. The culprit is ...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - An outbreak of spruce beetles continues to accelerate across hundreds of square miles of new forest in Colorado, although a much larger outbreak of the similar mountain pine ...
Scientists have found that drought means Engelmann spruce trees (pictured on Red Mountain Pass, Colorado, above) have weaker defenses against spruce beetles, triggering an outbreak in hundreds of ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. So far, fewer acres of trees have been affected by spruce beetles than mountain pine ...
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