The Bug That’s Eating the Woods.” “Small Pests, Big Problems: The Global Spread of Bark Beetles.” “Eighty-Nine Million Acres ...

UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation ...

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

Colorado residents, you’ve been holding out on the rest of us. This little half-mile loop might just be the highest return-on ...

An insect called the western spruce budworm continues to be the most widespread forest pest in Colorado, but a bark beetle ...

Welcome to Bear Lake Loop in Estes Park, Colorado, where Mother Nature clearly decided to show off just because she could.

That is 1,860 feet higher in elevation than the highest Jeffrey pine on record and even higher than lodgepole, limber and foxtail pines. To date, none of the six traditional subalpine forest species ...