PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire that is burning in one of the world's tallest trees near the state's southern coast. The Doerner Fir, a coastal Douglas Fir ...
When Brian French learned last week that the Doerner Fir was burning, he could think of only two reasons why: Either lightning had struck the enormous conifer in coastal Oregon — or someone had set it ...
The balsam woolly adelgid, a tiny nonnative flightless insect, is spreading across the American West killing subalpine fir in northern Utah's recreation-heavy mountain ranges and canyons. Rsearchers ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — One of the tallest and oldest trees in the world continues to burn in Oregon after it a fire was first reported Aug. 16, but even after at least five days of continuously ...