Colorado’s higher-altitude forests need ... four of the last five years was below the 100-year average. Mountain pine beetle, which creates the highly visible rust patches in hillsides crammed ...

The number of beetle-infested trees in Elk Meadow Park is triple what it was in 2024. Denver7 is highlighting the crews who ...

Over the past decade the Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendrocthonus ponderosae) has killed millions of pine trees from New Mexico to the Yukon Territory, as a result of an unprecedented explosion in their ...

Another insect flagged in the report was the mountain pine beetle, which has been building populations along Colorado’s Front Rage and in other parts of the state. In total, mountain pine ...

Each region in Colorado faces a different threat. The report found that the mountain pine beetle and emerald ash borer are spreading along the northern Front Range. The mountain pine beetle ...

Throughout the western U.S. you’ll find “beetle kill” pine adorning homes, stores, and restaurants. My house in Colorado has a ceiling built of beetle-kill planks. In Missoula, Montana ...

From the northern pine bark beetle in Canada, the mountain pine bark beetle in Colorado, Montana, and Idaho to the southern pine bark beetle in the southeastern United States, this bug—only ...

according to the annual aerial survey of state trees from Colorado State University’s forestry departmen t. The notorious spring rains and floods of 2013 slapped back one voracious, ...

The notorious spring rains and floods of 2013 slapped back one voracious, drought-opportunistic pest, the mountain pine beetle ... entomologist with Colorado State Forest Service.