For more than 20 years, we’ve been using pine bark mulch on our own gardens, while mulch fads came and went. Dyed red wood chips, cypress, dyed shredded rubber and dyed black wood chips have ...

Later we all “advanced” to the concept of tossing a little pine bark around new plants. Better than bare soil, right? At least it looked like we were doing something to help the plants and ...

In Southern California, the Mt. Pinos Ranger District of the Los Padres National Forest has seen the greatest tree mortality associated with drought and pine bark beetles. Consecutive years of ...

June 14, 2022 Great Basin bristlecone pine trees are magical for foresters like MacKenzie. In tough times, they die off almost entirely, leaving a few strips of bark that can continue growing for ...

A version of this article first appeared in The Panama City News Herald (NewsHerald.com) on July 11, 2019. We are 10 months post-Hurricane Michael, and just as we thought we had dealt with most of ...

To increase the mortality of pine beetles in the felled trees, the bark can be peeled, or the entire pine tree can be chipped and removed from the site. Inactive trees from which the pine beetles ...

I recently had someone help me clean out my landscape beds and put in fresh pine bark mulch. I suggested that they put down about 4 inches of mulch. Was that too much? For very light mulch ...

“The bark infestation has spread dramatically,” he said. “This is an unprecedented event.” Mountain pine beetles have reached epidemic levels in Boulder, Chaffee, Clear Creek ...