ArborRx Family Tree Service

08/12/2026

I know the beetle flight happened earlier this year. I found MPB in a log I peeled just yesterday though. Was it a mature beetle layover from last year? Or was it a new adult first strike from this year? What I do know definitely,is that it’s not a one season process as may be advertised. I have watched them take trees, slowly over the course of multiple seasons. This tree appeared to be killed a season or two earlier. Yet here they are. It’s dead. Has been for a season or two . It still has needles though and enough moisture to produce pitch tubes. It also still has active MPB though. I wish that the Colorado State Forest service and the local county beetle task force that we have in place would consider some other state research about the beetle attack versus the beetle flight.

08/10/2026

The Forest Restoration and Wildfire Risk Mitigation grant program helps fund projects that strategically reduce wildfire risk to property, infrastructure and water supplies and that promote forest health through scientifically based forestry practices.

07/08/2026

Some crew members kept fighting the fire even after learning their own homes had burned.

07/08/2026

At the Forest Service, we practice active forest management.

This is forest maintenance that keeps forests open, healthy and productive.

This work includes:
- Mechanical treatments to thin overstocked forests
- Timber sales to deliver wood to market
- Reforestation to grow strong, healthy forests
- Prescribed fires (good fire) to clean the forest floor and mimic natural cycles

07/01/2026

Meet Zach and Zilla

07/01/2026

07/01/2026