The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Herbal tea may soothe your nerves, but it’s stinky stuff if you’re a bark beetle. So say U.S. Forest Service ...

Colorado has faced epidemic levels of bark beetles. Here’s how one construction company executive made it his mission to put their damage to good use. On a hillside overlooking Steamboat Springs, a ...

They ‘go crazy’ in even-aged ponderosa pine forests, which is the makeup of that area The U.S. Forest Service is concerned that a bark beetle outbreak happening now in Narraguinnep Canyon might make ...