“The populations of southern pine beetles tend to be cyclical and vary by region,” said Carolyn Dawson, a Clemson Cooperative Extension area forestry agent based in the Upstate. “When stress ...

New York State Parks officials will begin removing dead trees from Napeague State Park in East Hampton after they were ravaged by infestations by the southern pine beetle. Officials said the insects ...

A destructive insect capable of devastating timber harvests is at “epidemic” level in Alabama, with the state’s forest management agency saying the problem is the worst it’s been in more than 20 years ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Southern pine beetles are popping up more and more throughout Alabama and trees are being impacted. According to the Alabama Forestry Commission (AFC), nearly five thousand ...

Hundreds of dead trees will be cleared in the next few weeks near Montauk and Amagansett to prevent fire danger caused by the southern pine beetle. A $1 million project to clear brush and create fire ...

Right now, because the trees are all the same age and are in close proximity, it’s sort of a ready-made buffet for the ...

The mystery surrounding a disease that is killing Southern pine trees could possibly be solved by Auburn University detector dogs. Lori Eckhardt, associate research professor in Auburn's School of ...

Forestland owners can get paid to complete their first tree thinning, said Joe Friend, forester for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. The program is a U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest ...

Here in New England, the pine bark beetle also seems to be causing more tree deaths than previously, and ecologists have ...