The mountain pine beetle is recognized as the most destructive of western forest insects, but the magnitude of this epidemic is already ten times larger than the greatest epidemic previously recorded.

This story appears in the April 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Six zipped her jacket and ambled into the woods with an ax. She stopped at a mixed stand of emerald and burnt-orange ...

The beetles have ravaged forests from the Rocky ... Their favorite target is the pitch pine — the most common species in the pine barrens, 100,000 acres of ecologically sensitive private and ...

A number of conservation areas on the Vineyard are receiving state funding to help prevent invasive species from degrading local forests and to mitigate wildfire hazards The Sheriff’s Meadow ...

Of all three, the southern pine beetle is the most aggressive ... which can make it hard to identify an outbreak from afar. The beetle attacks usually start in the trunk before climbing the ...

It is increasingly threatened by climate change, which is leading to increased fires and mountain pine beetle outbreaks. Like most imperiled species, the tree is also threatened by habitat destruction ...

which is fostering extensive outbreaks of mountain pine beetle, which kill the pine and allow competing tree species to take over the pine’s high-elevation habitats. This could lead to higher-severity ...

According to an article from History Colorado on Coloradoencyclopedia.org, in the early 2000s, several mountain pine beetle species ravaged large expanses of pine forests in Colorado due to a ...

Any pine forestry being felled or transported ... “The Department has not, as yet, found any evidence of beetles breeding in trees of any species in surveys conducted in 2023 or 2024.” ...