GOLDEN, Colo. – Today, the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Rocky Mountain Region, released the 2015 forest health aerial survey results for Colorado.
DENVER – This year’s State Capitol Holiday Tree, themed the “Gold Star Tree of Honor,” pays tribute to the more than 350 Colorado military service members lost in the global war on terror since Sept. 11, 2001, as well as their families.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Each year, the Colorado State Forest Service cuts the State Capitol Holiday Tree and smaller trees destined for the Colorado State University campus. One forester in particular plays an especially active role, from cutting the trees to personally delivering the two-and-a-half story giants to the Capitol.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – The Colorado State Forest Service is now accepting orders on a first-come, first-serve basis for low-cost seedling trees, shrubs and perennials grown at its Fort Collins nursery.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Coloradans use enough wood fencing to completely enclose the state’s borders with Wyoming, Nebraska and New Mexico, and enough framing lumber in residential construction, laid end to end, to reach over halfway to the moon. Yet 90 percent of the forest products purchased are imported into the state.
GRANBY, Colo. – Ron Cousineau, district forester for the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) Granby District, has been recognized with a 2015 Presidential Field Forester Award from the Society of American Foresters.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Although thousands of evergreen trees in areas of Colorado are beginning to display dying yellow or brown needles, most are simply going through a natural shedding process – and are not infested by bark beetles or tree disease.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Some stands of aspen and cottonwood trees across northern Colorado and along the Front Range won’t be their most picturesque this fall, due to leaf spot diseases that benefitted from an unusually wet spring and early summer.
LA JUNTA, Colo. – Elm trees in southeast Colorado are having a bad year. On the heels of years of drought, which already had reduced overall tree health, they are suffering from a one-two punch of a dramatic temperature decline last November, damaging trees that had not yet gone dormant.
BOULDER, Colo. – This week, the Colorado State Forest Service is partnering with Boulder County and the City of Boulder to place more than 65 traps targeting the tree-killing emerald ash borer (EAB).
