There is no evidence of North America's most destructive forest pest in Willamette Mission State Park. Ryan Sevey, a natural resource specialist with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, spent ...

Researchers hope to identify Oregon ash trees resistant to the emerald ash borer and breed them to restore the species as it suffers from the pest. If the emerald ash borer’s spread into Oregon is a ...

If the emerald ash borer’s spread into Oregon is a slow-moving natural disaster, researchers want to at least blunt the incursion’s full impact. A team of experts hopes to identify Oregon ash trees ...

The emerald ash borer, a tiny yet destructive invasive beetle known for wiping out ash trees on a large scale, has been confirmed at six new locations in northwest Oregon. First discovered in Forest ...

Samples for the study were collected by researchers from Penn State, the Forest Service and other partners around the Oregon ash range, extending from California, Oregon and Washington into British ...

The invasive emerald ash borer, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was first found in the United States in southeast Michigan in 2002. In the decades since, the wood-boring beetle has ...

The emerald ash borer, an invasive species of beetle, has been found in Portland. Local officials say it’s only a matter of time before the pests, which hollow out and kill ash trees, will arrive in ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A bug that’s led to the destruction of hundreds of millions of trees has made its way into our area. It’s called the emerald ash borer, a type of beetle that lays eggs inside ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The dreaded emerald ash borer has made its way into Portland, and it poses a threat to every ash tree in the city. The invasive beetle from East Asia has already had a ...

On Wednesday, the Oregon Department of Forestry announced that the emerald ash borer has now been found in the Hazelwood neighborhood in East Portland and five other new sites in the north Willamette ...

As Oregon gets hotter and drier due to climate change, tree-killing invasive pests that prefer warmer temperatures are thriving — endangering Sitka spruce along the coast, firs in the mountains and ...