YAKIMA COUNTY, Wash. - The invasive Japanese beetle is wreaking havoc on Washington’s agriculture and gardens, and state officials warn that the fight to eradicate the pest could take over a decade.

Timothy Byrnes, a forest ranger with the state Department of Environmental Conservation based in Stony Brook, largely "due to the infestation of the pine beetle." The beetles have ravaged forests ...

Now, we've received additional emails that show both the Department of Health and the City of Fort Pierce knew about the infestation since ... Varner's unit at Pine Creek Village.

lower elevation lodgepole pine forest that may be replaced by sagebrush steppe and high elevation spruce fir forest experiencing slower bark beetle infestation and much higher precipitation inputs. We ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the whitebark pine will be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The pine is the most widespread tree to receive such ...