Researchers with the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin recently studied New Mexico’s ...

Sitting at 53 feet tall is the red fir tree from the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, named ‘Silver Bell’ is this year’s U.S ...

FLAGSTAFF — As the morning light spread across the San Francisco Peaks, a group of about 50 volunteers from across Arizona gathered in the national forest, armed with shovels and buckets of young pine ...

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

Flathead Valley Community College's Natural Resource Conservation and Management students are hosting a training for a new citizen science mapping effort to investigate the health of ponderosa pine ...

MALDEN, Wash. - A DNR investigation into the Ponderosa Pine tree branch that fell on Avista powerlines, sparking the Babb Fire that destroyed over 120 homes in Malden and Pine City, shows the branch ...

SUNRIVER, Ore. (KTVZ) – Sunriver Resort, the Pacific Northwest's treasured resort destination, announced Wednesday its commitment to planting 400 Ponderosa pines near Woodlands Golf Course on Arbor ...

The gardening season has started and if you’ve got questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty and ...

High on Flagstaff Mountain, a ponderosa pine had quietly succumbed during the summer of 2020, but its green needles lingered another year to blanch in the fall of 2021. The tree was now conspicuous, ...

Bark beetles are only about the size of a grain of rice. But for such tiny critters, they can take a big bite out of the forest. There are more than 100 species of bark beetles in Idaho, said Gina ...

Hot temperatures usually make people tired and lazy, but for the western bark beetle, the heat just makes them want to have a lot of sex — and that’s bad news for giant pine trees scattered across the ...