(Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Along with the tourist crowds ... “Whether it’s objectively a problem depends on whether you’re a spruce beetle or not, I suppose,” Roland said.

That's critical as the beetle infestation spreads. The Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Protection calls the spruce beetle "the most damaging insect in Alaska's forests." The identification ...

The U.S. Forest Service and other partner organizations will be undertaking mitigation efforts for spruce beetle-killed trees around the Seward Ranger District of the Chugach National Forest ...

The majority of Alaska’s bird species are now at least ... In the 1990s, a devastating spruce beetle outbreak and wildfire felled almost a million acres of spruce. A grass called bluejoint ...

Bark beetle-infested spruce trees begin to dry out already before any visible signs of tree mortality appear, a recent study shows. Bark beetle-infested spruce trees begin to dry out already ...

Planting of new spruce trees is being banned in parts of East Anglia and South East England as part of new measures to limit the impact of an invasive beetle. The Ips typographus, or larger eight ...

A new machine-learning system developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in ...