ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — An invasive insect that kills ash trees is prompting Cornell University to fell 1,700 of the trees on its lands, a step it says will visibly alter the campus's appearance....

GOULD, Colo. (AP) — Stunned by unprecedented megafires, Colorado is embracing logging — mowing holes up to 140 acres in beetle-infested lodgepole pines — in an effort to revive out-of-balance...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A pest that has killed millions of the country's ash trees is spreading in Vermont and has been detected for the first time in Chittenden County, state officials said...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of researchers from Tennessee State University will help develop new ways to manage a wood-boring beetle that attacks trees, the university said.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont forestry officials are reminding the public about the threat to the state’s ash trees posed by the invasive insect the emerald ash borer. Next week is ash borer...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife officials in Montana have proposed a logging and vegetation treatment project west of Yellowstone National Park, citing the possibility of wildfires and the threat...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has approved a Wyoming forest restoration project to address mountain pine beetle infestation, wildfires and shifting forest vegetation...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine is asking residents to keep an eye on trees near their homes and neighborhoods for strange bugs.

August is a peak time of the year to be able to observe invasive...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two more Tennessee counties have been placed in quarantine after a beetle that kills emerald ash trees was found there earlier this month.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — The emerald ash borer has been found in Kearney, marking the first time the destructive insect has been confirmed in the state outside of eastern Nebraska, officials announced...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources is reminding residents to help slow the spread of the emerald ash borer, an insect that kills ash trees.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — With more residents spending time outside, Maine forestry officials are asking people to keep an eye out for an invasive forest pest.

CHICAGO (AP) — Flesh-eating beetles are still being fed at Chicago’s prestigious Field Museum of Natural History despite the institution shutting down because of the coronavirus pandemic....

COLUBMIA, Mo. (AP) — An invasive beetle that’s deadly to ash trees has now spread to 78 counties in Missouri, state conservation officials say.

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it's focusing on eradicating the destructive Asian longhorned beetle in parts of Massachusetts, New York and Ohio in 2020.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — Abundant Colorado snowpack helped reduce 2019 bark beetle activity impacting trees, but the following wet spring contributed to tree defoliation, a new report...

DETROIT (AP) — Federal agents in Michigan discovered an invasive beetle when a college student entered the U.S. from Canada last year, the first time that the voracious khapra beetle has been...

AUBURN, Mass. (AP) — The battle to eradicate Asian longhorned beetles continues over a decade after the species was first discovered in the Worcester area.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Officials in Maine say a type of beetle that's killed hundreds of millions of ash trees since its discovery in North America has been found on a trap in Portland.

DENVER (AP) — The Latest on Colorado wildfires (all times local):

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A lightning-caused wildfire in southern Colorado is being allowed to burn trees killed by beetles or...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — The Great Smoky Mountains National Park has issued an unusual video, alerting people to watch for rolling poop.

The park says on its Facebook page that the tumblebug...

ALBURG, Vt. (AP) — The state says an ash tree-killing pest found in some areas of the Vermont is spreading in Grand Isle County.

Vermont's agriculture agency and the state's Department of...

DENVER (AP) — A tree-killing beetle has been confirmed in a Colorado city despite preventative efforts.

The Denver Post reports that the Colorado State Forest Service announced the first...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia forestry officials have confirmed the spread of a highly invasive, destructive insect to another central Virginia county.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — State and federal authorities are asking Mainers to keep an eye on trees this month for the Asian longhorned beetle, an invasive pest.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Officials say an invasive beetle discovered a year ago in Vermont is chomping its way through trees in northern and central parts of the state.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — State officials are looking for help collecting an insect that attacks an invasive plant.

The state Departments of Agriculture and Trust Lands as well as several county...

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Avalanche debris in Colorado's high country could provide fresh breeding grounds for the forest-destroying bark beetle, but a U.S. Forest Service supervisor says there's little...

BRISTOL, Vt. (AP) — An ash tree-killing pest has been found in a sixth Vermont county.

Vermont Public Radio reports that the emerald ash borer was discovered in a tree in the town of Bristol...

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has canceled a decision to use chain saws to clear trees killed by bark beetles in two wilderness areas in southwestern Colorado.

PALMER, Alaska (AP) — The Matanuska-Susitna Borough is offering free sites for residents to dispose of spruce beetle-killed trees.

The move comes as officials try to reduce fire danger amid...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is providing funds to the state to help address an accelerating spread of spruce bark beetles.

EL DORADO SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — Scientists are preparing to end a seven-year program that has reintroduced the first federally endangered species to Missouri because the beetles have shown...

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has authorized the use of chain saws to clear trees killed by bark beetles in two wilderness areas in southwestern Colorado.

RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Sue Rickert from Caledonia said she's the "green nut" recruiting her husband and coworkers for events like WeedOut! Racine's tree planting in Colonial Park.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The city of Burlington, Vermont, is planting a variety of young trees to offset expected damage from an ash-tree killing pest.