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 ...

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 wet and cool ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An insect known for turning entire mountainsides the color of rust could be making a resurgence in Colorado. The pest is none other than the mountain pine beetle. After a roughly decade-long period of ...

They sit like haystacks in a field; piles of debris, waiting to be consumed. but in this case, it is by fire. In Evergreen, as well as other Colorado communities, burn piles await ignition as efforts ...