The recent mountain pine beetle epidemic in the Colorado River Basin has resulted in widespread tree mortality in lodgepole pine stands across the Colorado Plateau. The mountain pine beetle (MPB) ...

Pine rings record a sharp rise in rainfall intensity and volatility, showing modern extremes exceed patterns seen over the past 500 years.

Why would a tree living in a habitat that catches fire every few years produce turpentine, a highly flammable substance? That question was asked as I was building a fire at home with a piece of fat ...

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Pine trees are a staple of the community. but what happens when one gets infested or damaged? “When you plant one kind of tree, if there’s a disease or an event that happens ...

Gnarled, dead bristlecone pine trees, which can live more than 5,000 years, stand where young limber pine grow around them. Limber pine is beginning to colonize areas of the Great Basin once dominated ...