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 ...

DENVER – Spruce beetle infestation may not be the wildfire culprit that experts have led Southwest Colorado to believe, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, ...

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 ...

As spruce beetles attack trees across Southcentral Alaska, we want to learn more about your experiences with them. What are you doing to try to keep your spruce trees alive? Are you mourning the loss ...

Foresters will treat as many as 120,000 acres of lands on the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests to limit the effects of the spruce beetle and aspen decline. The spruce beetle and ...

Spruce trees killed by beetle do not correlate wth higher wildfire danger, CU-Boulder researchers find. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia. Contrary to expectations that spruce beetle infestations increase ...

One of the reasons Glen Hemingson bought his home in Anchorage’s Fairview neighborhood was the thick stand of spruce trees in the front yard. “It has the feeling of a forest,” Hemingson said. But soon ...

(CBS4) --State and federal forestry experts emphasized the weakening of trees due to drought conditions while presenting their latest observations made during an aerial survey of Colorado and Wyoming ...

In Finland, forest stands damaged by the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) tend to concentrate in groups and form ...

Crews cut down beetle-killed spruce trees in Anchorage in 2021. (Alaska Public Media) Take a flight over the Mat-Su valley, the Anchorage Bowl, or the Kenai Peninsula and you may notice areas that ...