Caltrans will remove more diseased and dying trees from the Highway 29/128 elm tunnel in St. Helena starting Feb. 18.

Western Oregon: Prune fall-bearing raspberries (in late-February or early-March). Plant windowsill container garden of herbs ...

Reptiles have been spotted on imported plants, but what we should really worry about, according to scientists, are the ...

Budget25: The hiring of two more employees in the forestry division will help city hall improve response times for service ...

Pine beetles can quickly decimate entire landscapes. Watching for signs of infestation and acting quickly will help you save ...

The reasons behind the decline in the population of insects living under tree bark and feeding on phloem remain speculative. Kristjan Ait attributes this primarily to an increase in the number of bark ...

Experts say the southern pine beetle has killed about 80% of the trees in Napeague State Park. NewsdayTV's Shari Einhorn reports. Credit: Newsday/Steve Pfost; Photo Credit: Newsday / Steve Pfost ...

In the decades since, the wood-boring beetle has spread east and west across the U.S. and Canada, killing tens of millions of ash trees, causing one of the costliest forest insect invasions to date.

This was a fungal disease spread by the elm bark beetle, which eventually kills the tree. Millions of the American Elm trees died due to over-planting of this tree in the country. Unfortunately, we ...

In the decades since, the wood-boring beetle has spread east and west across the U.S. and Canada, killing tens of millions of ash trees, causing one of the costliest forest insect invasions to date.

Likely originating in Asia, Dutch elm disease was first observed in the U.S. in the 1930s. Since then the disease has killed billions of elms around the United States and abroad, Held said. Spread by ...