But with treatment — assuming they are caught in time — the insects are killed and the trees can recuperate. According to the DNR, Michigan is home to more than 170 million mature hemlock ...

Hemlocks are majestic. Towering, evergreen, and capable of living up to 800 years, they’ve stood like green sentinels through ...

The state’s Maine Spruce Budworm Task Force has outlined steps forest owners can take in at-risk areas to minimize damage, ...

I had gone into the forest to collect myself. For a sense of timelessness, amid trees here long before I got here, that would ...

These small insects suck sap from hemlock needles and ultimately can cause tree death. Insecticides are available to control the insect, and in many cases, landowners can apply them easily by ...

Using tweezers, Diane Madl picked through debris strained from the Nescopeck Creek, teasing out nymphs, crayfish, salamanders ...

Eastern hemlock trees look like dark evergreen trees and ... tracked the spread north as far as the Leelanau Peninsula. The insects, originally from Japan, have an active crawling phase in the ...

By Kim Kelly and Cynthia Lafferty Welcome to the Garden Palette — Eugene Weekly’s new monthly gardening column! When my ...

This could have major impacts on the hemlock tree, a “foundation ... The researchers were unified in their opinion that invasive pests that feed on trees, such as the emerald ash borer, which ...

Northeast Michigan became a graveyard for fallen trees in the wake of the recent ice storm that passed through multiple counties, leaving thousands without power. Now that restoration efforts are well ...

As long as there have been forests, there have been natural events that change them. To understand the effects of the recent ice storm, it may help to review forest form and function. Forests are ...