A largescale thinning project in Thompson Chain of Lakes State Park seeks to combat a rash of disease and pest outbreaks while reducing hazardous wildland fuels.

It's the most common tree in Douglas County, but it's also under threat from the mountain pine beetle. As Colorado Gov. Jared ...

Is that tree a pine, a fir or a spruce? Here's a handy guide to identifying the many species of trees populating Central ...

That’s Chadron State Park in a nutshell – Nebraska’s very first state park established back in 1921, quietly showcasing some of the most breathtaking landscapes you’ll find anywhere in the Cornhusker ...

From cottonwoods and apple trees to a pine older than the state, Boulder County’s trees hold some of the area’s history — going back hundreds of years. In an area full of forest land, nailing down the ...

Vast swaths of the ponderosa pine forests that blanket Colorado's Front Range mountains could turn rust-colored and die over ...

Right now, because the trees are all the same age and are in close proximity, it’s sort of a ready-made buffet for the mountain pine beetle,” Colorado’s state forester says.

Ponderosa pine trees dominate parts of Eastern Oregon and Washington and have long been an icon of the American West, but in the past decade more than 200 million ponderosa have died. Particularly in ...

Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order on Monday aimed at curbing a mountain pine beetle outbreak in ponderosa forests along the front range. Polis said the infestation is in the beginning stages ...

A profound unraveling is underway in the American Southwest, happening across a thousand-mile arc from Santa Fe to the central Sierra. In an unprecedented calamity, the most widely distributed, most ...

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AFTER A MOONLESS NIGHT, black as Raven’s feathers, dawn breaks on the great wild open of southern Utah. I’m about thirty miles from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, standing on a slab of ...