The spruce beetle affected 25,000 new acres of Engelmann in Colorado in 2019. And in recent years, the roundheaded pine beetle has been attacking the region’s ponderosa pines, impacting 22,000 ...

Now, an outbreak of spruce beetles is threatening to devour even more trees in North America just as similar pests are decimating supplies in parts of Europe, creating a glut of dead and dying logs.

Battling spruce beetles ‘They’re predators, just like a pack of wolves’ By Ann Butler Staff reporter Wednesday, Mar 18, 2015 5:01 PM ...

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 ...

The Town of Vail will begin the removal of approximately 26 spruce trees in the vicinity of the Grand Hyatt in Cascade Village starting on Monday, Oct. 7. The dead and dying trees have been identified ...

Southern pine beetles have destroyed 5,000 acres since discovered on Long Island in 2014, including at Henrys Hollow Pine Barren State Forest. Credit: John Roca ...

The sweeping spruce-beetle infestation of Grand Mesa and other western Colorado forests could be a boon to the wood-products business, to say nothing of the drilling and alternative-fuels industries.

The mountain pine beetle is one of the more common in Colorado. It’s native to our state and most often finds its home in ponderosa, lodgepole and limber pine trees.