Grandview Forest Park in Gig Harbor is currently closed because of an outbreak of laminated root rot affecting Douglas firs. LEE GILES III Peninsula Gateway A city park adjoining Gig Harbor City Hall ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — A new study has warned that a fungus that devours the roots of Douglas fir trees in the Northwest could become a bigger killer as the climate changes. Laminated root rot occurs from ...

PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Ochoco National Forest has closed the Walton Lake Campground as of Sunday to implement its Walton Lake Restoration Project, but environmentalists who have fought the ...

Foresters are looking to hone their management of Douglas fir trees in the wake of a new state report that says a changing climate likely will worsen the spread of a root-devouring fungus. A special ...

Root-rotting fungi have lived among the Douglas firs of the Pacific Northwest for thousands of years — perhaps since the last ice age. They’re an invisible part of the sweeping forest scenery, ready ...