Mountain pine beetle, which creates the highly visible rust patches in hillsides crammed with lodgepole, grew to 5,600 acres of impact. The Douglas-fir beetle impacted 21,000 acres in 2024 ...

The temporary closures, which start May 12, are part of a forest health project the Boise National Forest says will mitigate ...

In its ongoing efforts to eradicate and slow the tide of bark beetle infestation in area forests, San Miguel County has ...

The 1,300-acre Deer Point project getting underway northeast of Boise aims to protect wildland-urban interface areas and ...

Bogus Basin Road and trails will close during certain times of the day starting May 12 for a forest project. The road will ...

Native insects were found to be the primary cause of tree damage, including caterpillars of Douglas-fir tussock moths which ... Some others include bark beetles, Piñon ips, Western Spruce budworm ...

Those trees are also especially vulnerable to pests as they lack the moisture needed to defend themselves against insects like native bark beetles ... in the Douglas-fir forests near the coast ...

The Douglas-fir pole beetle is a small (~1/8” long) beetle that attacks small diameter trees or branches and makes larval galleries in their host’s cambial layer (under the bark). These beetles ...