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CHEYENNE, WY. – Cheyenne Urban Forestry Division along with local arborists are continuing to observe an uptick in the number of dead and dying spruce trees in Cheyenne. This is the result of the spruce ips beetle. This current beetle infestation was first identified in Cheyenne about two and a half years ago and has shown no signs of slowing down. This beetle only infests spruce, such as Colorado Blue Spruce, Black Hills Spruce and Engelmann Spruce. Other evergreens, such as pines, junipers and firs are not affected...

DENVER, COLORADO - 2018 REPORT ON THE HEALTH OF COLORADO’S FORESTS

DENVER, COLORADO — Colorado forestry officials say the state’s spruce beetle infestation worsened in 2018. The Colorado State Forest Service said Thursday the pest was active on 278 square miles of high elevation lands last year. Since 2000, the beetle has damaged about 2,800 square miles...

BUENA VISTA, COLORADO — Bark beetle outbreaks have continued to expand in parts of Colorado, based on a 2018 aerial forest health survey conducted by the Colorado State Forest Service and the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region...

ASPEN, COLORADO — The Roaring Fork Valley forest has largely escaped the bark beetle outbreaks that have plagued many parts of the Colorado mountains in recent years, but that could change because of the Lake Christine Fire. Colorado State Forest Service entomologist Dan West said the valley already is dealing with pockets of Douglas fir beetle infestations. He expects the problem to expand this year...

BOULDER, COLORADO — Since 2000 spruce beetle outbreaks have wreaked havoc on more than 1.8 million acres in Colorado, affecting approximately 40 percent of the spruce-fir forests in the state ...

DENVER, COLORADO — The mountain pine beetle epidemic that ravaged Colorado’s lodgepole pines for two decades is over because most of the vulnerable trees are dead, but a second bug that attacks spruce trees is still spreading, forestry experts said Thursday...

A Little Pine Beetle Humor! Who would have thought?