White fir and red fir trees are dying at a fast clip in the Lake Tahoe Basin, the U.S. Forest Service confirmed. Rita Mustatia, forest silviculturist for the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, said ...

These numbers of tree mortality are still high, but they do show improvement. She also said that most of the mortality occurred in red and white fir trees due to the fir engraver beetle, a type of ...

Fir trees are dying in the Lake Tahoe Basin at a quicker rate than in the rest of California. The trees are perishing in greater numbers and faster than previously seen before, especially near ...