Rocky Mountain National Park is a bucket list National Park destination! It is well known for its abundant wildlife, one ...

Rocky Mountain National Park this spring will continue its mitigation efforts of tree-killing bark beetles. From late April through Memorial Day Weekend, the park will apply an insecticide to up ...

When research entomologist Barbara Bentz heard reports of mountain pine beetles infesting Great Basin bristlecones in Nevada, she wondered if the bugs had opened a new front in their assault ...

The main evergreen and aspen tree species making up Rocky Mountain forests are dwindling and likely will die out dramatically by 2060, according to a report by science advocacy groups. It’s not ...

Previous studies reported that in response to warmer temperatures, the mountain pine beetle has substantially increased its geographic range, killing trees 450 miles further north in Canada and 2,000 ...

Drier conditions could doom Rocky Mountain spruce and fir trees Date: February 22, 2018 Source: University of Colorado at Boulder Summary: Drier summers and a decline in average snowpack over the ...

We were pleased to see that the Helena National Forest is ready to take action against mountain pine beetles that are killing trees throughout the Rocky Mountains, including the slopes south of ...

Increasing tree die-offs in the West are illustrated by these gray, needleless limber pine, the likely victims of drought, interspersed with orange, dead limber and ponderosa pine killed by Rocky ...

Melting alpine ice in the Rocky Mountains has led to the discovery of a 5,900-year-old whitebark pine forest. Over 30 trees are estimated to have been found by scientists during an archaeological ...

The mountain pine beetle epidemic continued to decline in 2014 to its lowest level of active infestation in 17 years. Statewide, the mountain pine beetle was active on 23 square miles last year ...

Drier summers and a decline in average snowpack over the past 40 years have severely hampered the establishment of two foundational tree species in subalpine regions of Colorado's Front Range ...