Mountain pine beetles killing S.D. trees
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Large colonies of mountain pine beetles have become established in the central Black Hills, and officials estimate that about 2 million trees have been lost in the last two years.
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By Margaret Slaby, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--You've planted and pruned, watered and watched it grow. And now, at last, the first crop of tree fruit is ripening on the branch. Then the birds descend. They perch and peck, pillage and plunder.
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By David Usborne in New York  There is something doleful about the whispering of the white- barked aspen trees that carpet the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It is a sound of sickness and death.
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Contrary to the conventional wisdom, scientists have found that logging big dead trees after a wildfire and planting young ones makes future fires worse, at least for the first 10 or 20 years while the young trees create a volatile new source of fuel.
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Landowners in a North Carolina town have been clear-cutting thousands of trees to keep them from becoming homes for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker.
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By James Amos, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 14--Southern Colorado forests are not affected by the widespread bark-beetle infestations seen in Northern Colorado's lodgepole pine forests.
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The city would make a pre-emptive strike against a destructive insect by cutting down thousands of street-side ash trees, under a proposal from city foresters.
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By Henry Brean  By HENRY BREAN  REVIEW-JOURNAL  Trees and shrubs by the tens of thousands would be stripped from the Spring Mountains in the coming years as part of a U.S. Forest Service plan to protect private homes, public facilities and escape routes from wildfires.
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Ducks, wasps and beetles are pioneer viticulturalist Johnathan Grieve's insect killers of choice in his goal of creating one of South Africa's first entirely organic wine farms.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 14--The Coast's embattled urban trees are about to receive two types of help on Friday.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Millions of hectares of dead pine-beetle wood, decades worth of debris on the forest floor and warm temperatures could combine for one of the worst forest fire seasons in British Columbia since the fires storms of 2003.
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Sharpshooters will take to the trees next week in northern New Jersey's South Mountain Reservation to deal with a problem that has become the scourge of many suburban communities: too many deer.
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Scientists have discovered that byproducts of such everyday activities as using anti-bacterial hand soap or zapping mosquitoes with bug spray are winding up in streams and groundwater from the Denver area to remote spots in the Colorado mountains.
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By John Holland, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Jun. 23--SONORA -- Millions of small trees -- small enough to fit under a living room ceiling -- grow amid the big ones in the Stanislaus National Forest.
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These creepy critters enjoy nice long picnics in the woods. The leaf-eating gypsy moth caterpillars are out in force in parts of the mid-Atlantic following a warm, dry spring &#151; just the kind of weather that can make the insects thrive. Experts are predicting an especially bad year for trees, primarily oaks, which are the caterpillars' favorite snack.
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By Nancy Brachey, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 17--Q. Over the past five to eight years, all my boxwoods have died or are dying, and the azaleas do not look that great. Half of them get morning sun and others are under tall trees.
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Their decaying carcasses gave a super-size boost in nutrients to forest soil and stimulated seed and nitrogen production in a plant important to the forest ecosystem, researchers reported in Friday&#39;s issue of the journal Science.