The AFC release also said brown spot needle blight can stunt tree growth and increase the risk of pests like bark beetles. “Just in the last few days, the agency started receiving calls ...

A statewide poll found that a majority of Maine residents don’t believe Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) deserves to be reelected. The University of New Hampshire and the American Association of ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WBMA) — The Alabama Forestry Commission (AFC) is alerting forest landowners to a new threat to loblolly pine trees: brown spot needle blight. This fungal disease, which causes ...

The lone pine tree stands sentinel over Los Angeles from its 1,690-foot perch on Burbank Peak, right at the western edge of the city’s largest green space. The mythology around the tree grew ...

The notorious spring rains and floods of 2013 slapped back one voracious, drought-opportunistic pest, the mountain pine beetle, according to CSU. And a relatively wet 2023 for much of the state ...

The 2013 floods gave state trees the water they needed to fight off the mountain pine beetle and other forest pests, but a dry 2024 restarted some pesky threats “The Bug That’s Eating the ...

Sandwiched between a lodgepole pine on the left and a foxtail pine on the right is the first Jeffrey pine tree UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford observed in Sept. 2024 on a hike along Mount Kaweah in ...

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.