A new state report out this week finds conifer tree deaths – including iconic species like the Ponderosa and Pinyon pine – ...

As she peeled back the bark with her ax ... It’s native to western pine forests, especially lodgepole and ponderosa forests, where it normally lives in relatively small numbers, killing a ...

A state’s insect expert called the discovery of a tree-killing bark beetle in a Bothell trap ... Beth Willhite identified the beetles in Ponderosa pines on Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Pierce ...

"We had to have some of our Ponderosa Pines in our backyard treated for it to make sure that they would stay healthy," said Johnson. Mountain Pine Beetles do not eat dead bark, so the wood on ...