Nov. 18—A spruce budworm outbreak has plagued Maine's northern borders for nearly two decades, with the tree-killing moths making sporadic incursions from Quebec but never reaching numbers that ...

As a cadre of Maine foresters and ecologists shuffled down the sun-baked roads of Surry Forest on Wednesday they were faced with the same sweltering heat they are trying to prepare Maine’s coastal ...

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BLACKSBURG, Va. – Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment announced on Thursday that they will be leading a $2 million project to help restore red spruce forests in the Central ...

Look at a tree damaged by a bark beetle, and the weaving tunnels might look like an alien language. For a tree already stressed by drought or other factors, it can spell doom. Dense forests are often ...

Frequent travelers on Interstate 70 through the Colorado mountains have become inured to the specter of lodgepole pines turned red by the invasion of the bark beetle. The disturbing picture of the red ...

An international study has revealed spruce trees not only respond to a solar eclipse but actively anticipate it by synchronizing their bioelectrical signals hours in advance into a cohesive, ...

Seasonal workers climb tree after tree to collect seeds that will eventually help regrow forests, an effort that could get the country closer to its climate goals WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how ...

Foresters will treat as many as 120,000 acres of lands on the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests to limit the effects of the spruce beetle and aspen decline. The spruce beetle and ...