Officials issue warning after destructive forest insect spreads across US region: 'Report any suspected damage'

Officials in coastal Massachusetts are sounding the alarm after confirming the presence of a highly destructive forest pest ...
SummitDaily.comOpinion

Guest opinion: A tale of 2 forests — and one bug

But the real threat to our forests in the High Country west of Denver is not from bugs, but from the public agencies ...
KOAA News5

Gov. Polis: 'Very likely' mountain pine beetles could devastate Front Range Forests

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) is warning that mountain pine beetles could devastate Ponderosa Pine forests along the Western Front Range within the next two to three years.
The Aspen Times

‘Beetle-mania’: Colorado scientists and citizens question state officials’ claim that beetle-killed forests increase wildfire risk

Some scientists and Colorado residents are raising concern that the state’s messaging and management of beetle-killed forests do not align with the published research on the interaction between dead ...
Montrose Press

Ponderosa Mountain Pine Beetle Task Force appointees announced — Meetings to begin end of February

Governor Jared Polis and the Colorado Department of Natural Resources recently announced appointments to the Ponderosa ...
Arizona Daily Star

Bug is threat to forests of pine near Flagstaff

FLAGSTAFF — Pine-needle-eating bugs are pestering a thousand acres of trees near Kendrick Peak, northwest of Flagstaff. In an area burned by the 15,000-acre Pumpkin Fire in 2000 and in controlled ...