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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Preventing damage seen in the Wolf Creek area is a priority The bark beetles are here. Actually, the bark beetles that kill mountain trees are always around, San Juan National Forest representatives ...

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 ...

(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 ...

It is smaller than your fingernail, but this hairy beetle is one of the biggest single threats to the UK's forests. The bark beetle has been the scourge of Europe, killing millions of spruce trees, ...

An international research team demonstrates that the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) uses volatile fungal metabolites of plant defense substances as important chemical signals in their ...

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

Jul. 24—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.