Colorado launches statewide response to growing pine beetle threat near Front Range communities

Colorado leaders are sounding the alarm on a growing pine beetle outbreak that experts say could kill millions of trees and ...

Colorado officials discuss new Mountain Pine Beetle invasion

Gov. Jared Polis, along with several leaders from multiple counties in the western Front Range, met Monday in Evergreen to ...
Colorado Public Radio

First lodgepoles, now ponderosas, Colorado is fighting beetles on multiple fronts

Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order on Monday aimed at curbing a mountain pine beetle outbreak in ponderosa forests ...
Montana Free Press

Judge halts Forest Service fire prevention project north of Yellowstone, citing impacts to grizzlies, lynx

The project called for a network of clear-cuts, logging and prescribed fire across a 40,000-acre swath of the Custer Gallatin ...
The Lewiston TribuneOpinion

OPINION: They are fleecing consumers for Washington’s slush fund

It seems that the Washington state Democrats have created a multibillion dollar slush fund by fleecing the wallets of every ...

The American West's most iconic tree is disappearing

A profound unraveling is underway in the American Southwest, happening across a thousand-mile arc from Santa Fe, New Mexico, ...
The Canadian Press on MSN

Why was ‘incredible’ giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.’s big-tree protection law?

Joshua Wright says a yellow cedar tree he photographed last year was "incredible," the largest he'd ever seen in a decade of ...