Lately, local residents were complaining that local pine forests stopped growing and were drying up due to forest insect pests. To confirm this rumor, experts from Onon Balj National Park ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Nonindigenous insects and pathogens continue to become established in US forests with regularity despite regulations intended to prevent this, according to a study published in the December 2010 issue ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. A wetter-than-average year helped Santa Fe National Forest boost its defenses enough to hold steady against ...

Relationships between tree diversity and pest diversity follow a hump-shaped curve. That's the finding of a national study of US forests that compared two county-level data sets. A national-scale ...

The Outlook for 6 Forest Pests and Diseases in Maine A combination of deep freezes and control measures have knocked back some prominent Maine forest pests and diseases over the past couple of years, ...