Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A western pine beetle rests on a sap mound on a pine tree. - Charles Wollertz/Getty Images A thriving pine tree is a thing of ...

Colorado’s warm and dry winters have tipped the balance in a long-running ecological tug-of-war. The mountain pine beetles, native insects to the Centennial State, have recently exploded in numbers in ...

If you can’t kill it, can you at least control it? That’s the poignant question facing the Central Pine Barrens and its stewards, including the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - The Alabama Forestry Commission said what they’re seeing now is the worst outbreak of southern pine beetles in almost 25 years. A widespread of pine trees in the Bankhead ...

A Colorado nonprofit is working to help landowners fight back against growing infestations of mountain pine beetles and protect their properties from wildfires.

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Pine engraver beetles are beginning to show up across the Black Hills, moving into downed branches and broken pine trees left behind by winter windstorms. Foresters say the ...

Pine beetles are making a comeback and killing ponderosa pines across large swaths of Colorado forests, especially along the state's Front Range, as seen here near Interstate 70 and Soda Creek Rd in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Vast swaths of the ponderosa pine forests that blanket Colorado’s Front Range mountains could turn rust-colored and die over the next five years as pine ...