YAKUTAT — “There they are,” Ben Gaglioti said, after a short hike off a gravel road leading away from this small fishing town. Gaglioti walked in rubber boots on a green, squishy carpet of muskeg — a ...

Forecasts for hot, dry weather and lightning storms -- plus a widespread beetle infestation -- threaten to spark a summer wildfire season more active than last year's. And officials need look no ...

From the late 1990s through 2013, most of Colorado’s trees lost to mountain pine beetle infestations were lodgepole pines at ...

ASPEN ” Jan Burke recalls traveling over Independence Pass and thinking “uh-oh” shortly after she began working for the White River National Forest a couple of years ago. The east side of the pass was ...

Jan Burke recalls traveling over Independence Pass and thinking “uh-oh” shortly after she transferred to the White River National Forest a couple of years ago.The east side of the pass was thick with ...

If your summer travels have taken you across the Rocky Mountains, you’ve probably seen large swaths of reddish trees dotting otherwise green forests. While it may look like autumn has come early to ...

Dead, beetle-killed lodgepole pines have become an all-too-common site in the Colorado High Country. Unfortunately, Summit and Grand counties are at the epicenter of the red tide sweeping through the ...

What: Electric gold barely seems sufficient to describe the needles of this beguiling Pacific Northwest native lodgepole pine cultivar discovered in northeastern Oregon. The new growth of Pinus ...

YAKUTAT — “There they are,” Ben Gaglioti said, after a short hike off a gravel road leading away from this small fishing town. Gaglioti walked in rubber boots on a green, squishy carpet of muskeg — a ...

A new University of Colorado Boulder study indicates the infestation of trees by mountain pine beetles in the high country across the West could potentially trigger earlier snowmelt and increase water ...