That’s the poignant question facing the Central Pine Barrens and its stewards, including the New York State Department of ...

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More wildfires could be in store for Long Island’s East End thanks to a tree-killing beetle. A wildfire ripped through about ...

Downed pine trees develop a fungal stain quickly, losing their value as timber. Stressed or damaged pines and fresh pine ...

The pest is none other than the mountain pine beetle. After a roughly ... insect communication to slow infestations. Thinning forests can also leave remaining trees in a better position to ward ...

Participants at last week’s annual Michigan Society of American Foresters conference in Bellaire discussed how bark and wood-boring beetles can be expected as the next environmental and economic ...

Officials on Long Island are trying to save decimated pine forests. The war on the southern pine beetle has gone on for more ...

the mountain pine beetle, according to CSU. And a relatively wet 2023 for much of the state bolstered many trees against the spread of that beetle, the separate spruce beetle and the spruce budworm.

Removing the trees will help prevent the spread of damaging beetles, according to the Department of Natural Resources.

The terrifying beetle-kill headlines from the mid-2010s were as relentless and depressing as the swaths of rust-red dead ...

The 2013 floods gave state trees the water they needed to fight off the mountain pine beetle and other forest ... need to stay healthy and fight off infestations, said Dan West, entomologist ...