May 30, 2018 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service announced early signs indicating national forest lands will face a second consecutive year of a severe southern pine beetle outbreak threatening to damage tens of thousands of acres of pine forests in Mississippi. Forest Service scientists...
Sep 25, 2017 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service has announced that federal and state forest management officials signed a Good Neighbor Authority agreement, a tool to improve forest health, including efforts to suppress the unprecedented southern pine beetle epidemic that includes nearly...
Dec 7, 2016 | News, News/PR
For about 15 years, the state’s most destructive forest insect has been lying low in South Carolina. But damage caused by recent droughts, storms and wildfires raises the specter of a resurgence. Sizable infestations of southern pine beetles have been few and far...
Jun 10, 2016 | News, News/PR
It’s one of the most destructive insects native to South Georgia, and it can wreak havoc on the pine tree crop. The Georgia Forestry Commission says there hasn’t been an outbreak of southern pine beetle cases in the last 20 years, but now, unfortunately,...