Larimer County will likely be seeing more red, in the form of rust-colored ponderosa pines affected by mountain pine beetles.

COLORADO, USA — A warm and dry 2024 wasn't great for Colorado's forests, according to the Colorado State Forest Service. The agency's annual forest health report released Wednesday found that after a ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — For centuries, Colorado’s forests have acted like giant sponges, soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But new research reveals these natural carbon-capture systems are ...

According to data reviewed and analyzed by Colorado State University researchers, Colorado's forest as a collective is now emitting more carbon into the atmosphere than it is absorbing. Data collected ...

Colorado’s forests store a massive amount of carbon, but dying trees – mostly due to insects and disease – have caused the state’s forests to emit more carbon than they absorbed in recent years, ...

Colorado has so many picturesque hiking trails, but the five longest boast some of the most beautiful nature you'll ever see, ...

Two major U.S. Forest Service projects — authorized under federal emergency powers — will target up to around 308,000 acres of public land along the Front Range with treatments meant to reduce ...

"This is a typical bug-kill, blow-down mess that should have been harvested 20 years ago," says Mark Morgan as he surveys a tract of lodgepole pine on a slope of national forest land west of Fort ...

Camille Stevens-Rumann crouched in the dirt and leaned over evergreen seedlings, measuring how much each had grown in seven months. "That's two to three inches of growth on the spruce,” said ...

It's his first book devoted to trees since his bestselling A Colorado Autumn (1994), and includes 66 color photographs of all of Colorado's dominant tree species. The book also looks at the stresses ...

Pine beetles are making a comeback and killing ponderosa pines across large swaths of Colorado forests, especially along the state's Front Range, as seen here near Interstate 70 and Soda Creek Rd in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Permits for cutting down Christmas trees in national forests, a Thanksgiving weekend tradition for many Colorado families, are now on sale. Permits are most ...