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Less water and moisture mean that fir trees become more vulnerable to attacks by pests that bore into their bark to lay eggs ...

An aerial survey conducted this past summer by the U.S. Forest Service and the Oregon Department of Forestry found more than 1 million acres with dead or dying fir trees in Oregon, the largest ...

In a recent aerial survey, the U.S. Forest Service observed dead trees in about 1.23 million acres (over 1,900 square miles) of forest in Oregon and Washington, Columbia Insight reported.

Tree health specialists scan forests, looking for fir trees that have turned red, which indicates that they are dead. The U.S. Forest Service ...

The US Forest Service announced it will begin logging the old growth fir forest around Walton Lake starting October 1 st, 2023. Walton Lake is located in the Ochoco Mountains in central Oregon ...

"In the past, we used to see a few dead trees scattered amongst the healthy ones," said Katerina Kolirou, head of the local forest service in Kalavryta, a village famed for its forests of the Greek ...

He estimated a 30-40% snow-cover decrease over the years. Fir forest decline, also seen on the Greek mainland and the Ionian Islands, is not unique to Greece.