As spruce beetles attack trees across Southcentral Alaska, we want to learn more about your experiences with them. What are you doing to try to keep your spruce trees alive? Are you mourning the loss ...
One of the reasons Glen Hemingson bought his home in Anchorage’s Fairview neighborhood was the thick stand of spruce trees in the front yard. “It has the feeling of a forest,” Hemingson said. But soon ...
Sep 19, 2021 Sep 19, 2021 Updated Oct 24, 2022 An epidemic is creeping into Interior Alaska, but it is not attacking people. It is killing forests filled with mature white spruce trees. The culprit is ...
A new machine-learning system developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in ...
Andrew Carmichael said there are 1,000 spruce on the city's high-priority list. Some, including the one above, have already caused damage at city campgrounds and parks. (Sabine Poux/KDLL) Centennial ...
The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday unanimously approved a $50,000 grant to pay for spruce beetle mitigation and restoration in the city. Josh Durand, director of the Anchorage Parks and Recreation ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nick Beckage, a graduate researcher, Davin Louangaphay, a research assistant, and Philippe Amstislavski, a professor of health ...
An international research team demonstrates that the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) uses volatile fungal metabolites of plant defense substances as important chemical signals in their ...
A new machine-learning system can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in Alaska, even in forests of low and moderate ...