The Forest Health Task Force brought together names in the Denver lumber, contractor and developer markets to talk shop on building a market for Colorado’s blue-stained pine on Monday in Frisco. The ...

The term symbiosis comes from the Ancient Greek “syn” – “with” – and “biosis” – “living” – and is the close and often long-term interactions between different biological species. Often this ...

Colorado’s forests have been waging a losing battle against tree-killing beetles for more than 15 years. Now, after marching across the state and killing millions of acres of pine forest, the ...

The genome of the fungus that helps mountain pine beetles infect and kill lodgepole pines has been decoded. The genome of the fungus that helps mountain pine beetles infect and kill lodgepole pines ...

For more than a decade, drought conditions have set the stage for a mountain pine beetle epidemic throughout millions of acres of forest in the Rocky Mountain West. Standing dead lodgepole pines pose ...

A Chinese research team led by Dr. Ning Tian and Dr. Yongdong Wang (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaenology, CAS), in a groundbreaking discovery, came across 160-million-years-old, well-preserved ...

I first became aware of blue-stain wood in the 1980s when my wife and I bought a house in Fort Collins. At the time, I didn’t know how the colors were created. I only knew that the grain of the ...

The genome of the fungus that helps mountain pine beetles infect and kill lodgepole pines has been decoded in a University of British Columbia study. Also known as blue stain fungus for the stain it ...