Clay says 100 percent of the beetle-kill pine used in his production is Colorado-sourced, mostly from Summit and Grand counties. Wood finishes and powder coating are both formaldehyde-free.

In an effort to source supplies locally, Lantero reached out to a lumber mill down the road from his family’s Winter Park ranch. That’s when he found out about beetle kill pine.

Colorado’s forests have been waging a losing battle against tree-killing beetles for more than 15 years. Now, after marching across the state and killing millions of acres of pine forest, the ...

The Spruce Beetle has killed 40% of Colorado’s Engelmann Spruce forests. Beetle kill has ravaged some 5.1 million acres of forest in Colorado. Wood products created by logging store carbon.

So in 2009, 2010, the beetle-kill infestation—the mountain pine beetle—devastated Canadian forests. The beetles come around every year, but it did not get cold enough for long enough, too many ...

DENVER — A Denver-based company is putting beetle-kill pine to good use by making furniture. “There’s so much dead wood in the forests of Colorado, so we wanted to take a bad situation and ...

The Forest Service charges beetle-kill harvesters $20 to remove two cords of wood here in Colorado. Rotting trees increase greenhouse gases in forest ecosystems by 25%. With more than 834 million ...

Warmer weather and the mountain pine beetle can share the blame for one of the worst lumber shortages in history, with prices jumping 200-300% higher than pre-pandemic levels.

And the epidemic is widespread. That beetle kill pine is destructive to our forests as the trees pose a huge fire hazard, and with 4 million acres, that’s a big issue for the local community.

It has been especially bad in British Columbia, which exports about half of its lumber to the U.S. “The mountain pine beetle has been a force of nature in this current epidemic,” Cooke said.

GRAND COUNTY - The welcome sign as you enter the Western Slope town of Kremmling reads, "Sportsman's paradise," but Mark Mathis sees this area as more of a pellet paradise for pellet burning stoves.

The trees, killed by pine bark beetles, are typically the largest, oldest pines. The only place where beetle kill isn't evident is a 40-year-old clear cut that shows up as a healthy green square ...