Participants at last week’s annual Michigan Society of American Foresters conference in Bellaire discussed how bark and ...

Long Island’s vulnerable pine barrens, recently ravaged by wildfires last March, are facing another threat in the form of an ...

The bark of a tree is its own protection against the weather. While we shrug on a coat when it’s wet or cold, a tree will grow its own to insulate itself, keeping moisture out when it’s raining and in ...

Sarah Tharp, a wiry biologist for the U.S. Forest Service, hoists a small ax, takes aim and delivers an angled blow to an aspen trunk, peeling off a sample of diseased bark. "Sometimes," she says ...

The pine is the most widespread tree to receive such protection. It occurs in high-elevation areas of Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada. The tree is primarily ...

He visually inspects each acre to pinpoint problem spots where bark beetles may be moving in and killing trees. Nuggets fire ... in activity from the mountain pine beetle. In 2021, the insect ...