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 ...
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 ...
<CBS4) - It's been a tough sight for many to see -- spruce fir forests dying off because of the Spruce Beetle. Now a new report by Colorado State University says above-average temperatures could make ...
(Beetle kill) is an epidemic.” Spruce beetles reached the Monarch area en masse in 2012, carried north by the wind from the Weminuche Wilderness. They landed in the San Isabel National Forest, which ...
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.
At least 2,000 more trees were infested by spruce beetles in Baylor Park this summer while environmentalists and the White River National Forest battled legally over a logging plan aimed at limiting a ...
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 ...
If the climate continues warming as predicted, spruce beetle outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains could become more frequent, a new multi-year study led by Colorado State University finds. While insect ...