As wildfires in northern Minnesota continue to spread, the Department of Natural Resources says an insect may be helping to fuel the flames. The region has been experiencing a spruce budworm outbreak, ...

The eastern spruce budworm is a native insect that munches on balsam fir, leaving some 1,100 square miles of trees defoliated or dead last year, the most in the region since 1961. A spruce budworm and ...

Timberland owners and state officials hope to capitalize on a successful pesticide campaign against a spruce budworm outbreak by resuming aerial treatment next spring. Targeted aerial spraying across ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — On Thursday, there's still zero containment on the fires burning in northeastern Minnesota. They're being fueled by hot and windy conditions, along with a lot of dead and downed trees ...

Editor's Note: This story is part one in a series about Maine’s changing forests. From the summit of Katahdin, the view is of forests stretching in all directions, broken only by the western lakes, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 2—A government-funded campaign has begun spraying insecticides and biological agents on 240,000 acres of Maine's North Woods ...

A Gordon Lightfoot song, the “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” has a stanza that goes, “There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run / When the wild majestic mountains stood alone ...

Wildfires are burning through thousands of acres of forest in Northern Minnesota damaging buildings and forcing residents to evacuate their homes. The yet-to-be-contained Camp House fire, Jenkins ...

The Department of Natural Resources released its Forest Health Highlights report, showing 545,000 acres of forest damage in 2024, an increase from the previous year. Commissioner Dave Upthegrove ...

The eastern spruce budworm is a native insect that munches on balsam fir, leaving some 1,100 square miles of trees defoliated or dead last year, the most in the region since 1961. A spruce budworm and ...