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What started as a backyard dispute over pests ended with Phil and Elizabeth Rupprecht hauling out a chainsaw and cutting down 10 of their own citrus trees rather than let state crews touch them.

A Fallbrook couple says California state agriculture employees went onto their private property and threatened to arrest them over their fruit trees, raising concerns about how far the state will go ...

LAKE COMO — The guys who work for Monture Creek Land Management, the company that’s been contracted by the Bitterroot National Forest to spray insecticide at popular campgrounds this summer in an ...

It's time to start working on managing pests in your fruit and landscape trees this year. Springtime is starting, even if it is delayed a bit from the normal timing. Given the huge differences in ...

With all the dialogue about fire mitigation lately, an important piece of the forest management puzzle has been left out of the conversation—insects. And with spring on the horizon, this is the time ...