Tips to Prepare Urban Trees for the Winter
BROOMFIELD, Colo. – Trees in urban and community settings throughout Colorado are now going dormant, and they require care before and during the winter to remain in top health.
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Agreement to Improve Forest Health Across Boundaries
GOLDEN, Colo. – The USDA Forest Service (USFS) and Colorado State Forest Service have finalized an expanded federal-state partnership that will indefinitely enable and increase management efforts on federal lands.
Colorado State Forest Service Now Accepting Seedling Tree Orders
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.
Forest Products Week Highlights Need for Coloradans to Use Local Wood
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 Forester Receives National Award for Applied Forestry
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.
Yellowing Pine Needles Normal in Autumn
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.
Aspen, Cottonwood Leaf Diseases not Lethal to Trees, but Could Impact Fall Colors
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.
Tree Pests, Past Weather Events Combine to Damage Elms in Southeast Colorado
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.
Educators Spend a Week at the Fire Ecology Institute
FLORISSANT, Colo. – The 14th Annual Fire Ecology Institute for Educators, a weeklong forestry and wildfire workshop offered by the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) and Project Learning Tree (PLT), brought educators from around the state to the Nature Place in Florissant, Colo., earlier this month.
Emerald Ash Borer Detection Efforts Intensify Within, Near Boulder
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).
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