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

To avoid disruption, the U.S. Forest Service wants to remove dead and dying trees along powerlines crossing national forest system lands in northern Colorado. The Routt, Arapaho and White River ...

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 ...

CHEYENNE – The mountain pine beetle outbreak that spanned almost two decades is all but over locally, but dead and dying trees remain. Since the outbreak’s beginning in 1996, the pine beetle ...

Juice Custom Cutting employee Dylan Lewis loads boards cut from mountain pine beetle-killed trees into a resaw at the outdoor saw mill near Deer Lodge, Montana on Sept. 12, 2019.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...