Pine Bark Beetles

The Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota and Wyoming will use extensive commercial tree thinning to battle the mountain pine beetle.

The U.S. Forest Service and the Wyoming Department of Transportation are advising travelers of Wyoming Highway 130 to be aware of work that is going on between Laramie and Saratoga.

MONTROSE, Colo. (AP) — Forest managers are asking for greater flexibility to deal with a bark beetle epidemic that has ravaged forests. According to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, witnesses told a congressional hearing on Monday that the epidemic poses a serious to local communities and firefighters...

POWELL, Wyo. (AP) — The pine beetle infestation in Shoshone National Forest appears to be subsiding.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Cheyenne is spraying trees to prevent them from being infested in with mountain pine beetles. The city is spending tens of thousands of dollars to spray all of its 4,000 pine trees. The city’s urban forestry director, Lisa Olson, told the Associated Press that the department has cut back on other programs to treat the trees with a spray that kills the beetles...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — University of Colorado researchers say mountain pine beetles that are devastating forests across the West are now breeding twice in some years. Researchers say the beetles usually lay their eggs in late July or August...