MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WBMA) — The Alabama Forestry Commission (AFC) is alerting forest landowners to a new threat to loblolly pine trees: brown spot needle blight. This fungal disease, which causes ...

Authorities first spotted the blaze on Tuesday morning, local time, from a fire tower when a smoke column appeared amid the pine trees. Law enforcement said they used a GPS to plot the origin of ...

“It’s very likely that pine beetles and other wood borers are ... “We do some salvage work. We clean up the trees that are broken and damaged,” Martell said. “Do we leave seed trees?