Members of the governor's task force on the Front Range pine beetle infestation met at Chief Hosa Lodge on Wednesday morning ...

The U.S. Forest Service will begin treating trees this spring as the mountain pine beetle outbreak intensifies along the ...

San Juan National Forest officials are becoming increasingly concerned about the destructive impacts of a round-headed pine beetle infestation. The beetle is native to the state but is more commonly ...

The mountain pine beetle left a pitch tube left in a pondersoa pine tree as other dead trees stand in the background on Don Hardin’s property in Black Forest Friday, July 3, 2025. (The Gazette, ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - A mountain pine beetle infestation in the forests of Montana could have an impact on the Cabin Gulch Fire. Experts say that there are millions of mountain pine beetles in the forest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A western pine beetle rests on a sap mound on a pine tree. - Charles Wollertz/Getty Images A thriving pine tree is a thing of ...

Vast swaths of the ponderosa pine forests that blanket Colorado’s Front Range mountains could turn rust-colored and die over the next five years as pine beetles begin to spread aggressively, new ...

No matter if your attraction to the outdoors is hunting, hiking, mountain biking, photography, bird watching or the forest industry, your hobby or livelihood is under attack. If you don’t feel fear ...

The warmest winter in Colorado history could lead to record-breaking proliferation of a tiny insect, about the size of a grain of rice, that has killed millions of acres of trees across the Centennial ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — While the mountain pine beetle epidemic has passed its peak, Montana forestry officials said Monday it’s not over yet. The latest survey shows more than 526,000 acres of pine ...

Driving through Montana last week, I saw worrisome splotches of red in the thick stands of trees on some hillsides — not the fires of dry summers past, but the first signs that the pine beetles that ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Many southern Coloradans would tell you one of the things they love about living along the Front Range is that there are few bugs, but there still are some. One of those insects, a ...