Climate change is already reshaping the landscapes we know and love. Within the next century, the Antarctic could lose most ...

Rising winter temperatures are enabling destructive forest pests to survive and reproduce more rapidly, causing widespread damage across North America. Infestations by beetles and other invasive ...

Brian Milakovsky, senior forester for the New England Forestry Foundation, places a lab-grown beetle colony on a hemlock tree to combat the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid. Photo courtesy the New ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. --Purdue University and the U.S. Forest Service teamed up to develop the Alien Forest Pest Explorer, an interactive web tool that combines information from multiple sources to ...

Hotter temperatures and milder winters are enabling destructive forest pests to survive longer and reproduce faster, causing widespread damage across North America. Insects such as mountain pine ...

A recently published collection of policy briefs presents evidence-based policy recommendations on how to develop improved protocols and strategies for the successful control, prevention and ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — In this week’s Smoky Mountain Minute, Forestry Biologist for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Glenn Taylor highlighted forest health. Taylor talked about forest pests ...

Purdue University and the U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday (July 12) announced the new and improved Alien Forest Pest Explorer interactive web tool. “We want to better understand the relationship ...

Private Florida forest landowners in several Central Florida counties can apply for a program to help prevent an outbreak of southern pine beetles, known as “the most economically devastating forest ...

MUSKEGON, MI – Walking into a sticky spider web can be a day wrecker, and Michigan’s woods are full of them. The clingy structures attach to faces and clothes and are a pain to remove. That stickiness ...

Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and ...

A combination of deep freezes and control measures have knocked back some prominent Maine forest pests and diseases over the past couple of years, providing relief to Maine trees after years of ...