Fire policy began to shift by the 1990s, and when the pine beetle started ravaging the area in 2014, state foresters began ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A western pine beetle rests on a sap mound on a pine tree. - Charles Wollertz/Getty Images A thriving pine tree is a thing of ...

Despite the damage incurred by recent hurricanes, notably Hurricane Michael in 2018, the pine tree industry in Florida still is a major contributor to the state’s economy. This industry includes the ...

A team of forest guardians fighting to keep a southern pine beetle infestation in check at The Nature Conservancy's Waterboro Barrens Preserve stand among a stand of strategically thinned pitch pines ...

Mountain pine beetles threaten the health of six million hectares of pine forest in Alberta, the release states. Infestations began in southwest Alberta in 2002 and in west-central Alberta in 2006. No ...

Hundreds of dead trees will be cleared in the next few weeks near Montauk and Amagansett to prevent fire danger caused by the southern pine beetle. A $1 million project to clear brush and create fire ...

Vast swaths of the ponderosa pine forests that blanket Colorado’s Front Range mountains could turn rust-colored and die over the next five years as pine beetles begin to spread aggressively, new ...

The warmest winter in Colorado history could lead to record-breaking proliferation of a tiny insect, about the size of a grain of rice, that has killed millions of acres of trees across the Centennial ...

COMPANY WHO’S SEEN A BOOM IN BUSINESS AS. SLICING. AND DICING. THESE PINE TREES HAVE TO COME DOWN. >> I DON’T THINK WE’VE EXPERIENCED ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN 40 YEARS. >> YOU SEE THESE HOLES, YOU SEE ...

WATERBORO, Maine — The state's widespread fires of 1947 and a planned but failed housing development in the 1970s could not kill off the 3,000 acres of mostly pitch pine trees and brush here. But a ...