Climate-induced warming is fueling the proliferation of insects keen on invading Colorado’s forests and leaving the trees they devour for dead, a new report has found. After a wet and cool 2023 ...

In a nutshell Colorado’s 22.8 million acres of forests are now emitting more carbon than they absorb, primarily due to widespread tree mortality from bark beetles, disease, and wildfires. While ...

On Tuesday, the Colorado State Forest Service released its annual report tracking the damage from forest pests. “Insects are so closely tied to a lot of that temperature and precipitation so in ...

Wildfire mitigation is a hot topic in Colorado, with the fire season now stretching well beyond the sweltering summer months as the climate warms and a megadrought continues to dry out the American… ...

The result is a lag in attaining the federal government’s 200,000-acre target for wildfire mitigation and forest restoration in Colorado and surrounding states.

Environmental groups are sounding the alarm after the U.S. Department of Agriculture declared more than 100 million acres of national forest land “an emergency situation” that can only be ...

Insects represent more than half of all wild species on the planet, ... Colorado’s White River National Forest has a new top boss. Jun 11, 2025. A born-and-raised Coloradan died after falling from a ...

Between 2000 and 2023, over 25,000 forest management projects have taken place on over 1.1 million acres of Colorado forest. Aspen Times archives Over one-third of Colorado is forested acreage — 24 ...

It's here on the forest floor where McCullough, a biologist at Clark University, goes on safari for organisms that have a lot to say about the health of the environments they call home.

Climate-induced warming is fueling the proliferation of insects keen on invading Colorado’s forests and leaving the trees they devour for dead, a new report has found. After a wet and cool 2023 ...