The density of lodgepole pine is about 29 pounds per cubic foot at 10 percent MC. This means that a dried piece of lumber 1 inch x 6 inch x 10 feet (actual size ¾ inch x 5-1/2 inch x 10 feet ...

Oregon has about 1.3 billion lodgepole pine trees. Combined with the expected climate change-related lengthening of the fire season from spring to autumn and the overgrown state of many of Oregon’s ...

To get to the lodgepole pine trail head, take California 38 to Mill Creek Road (about 1 mile west of the city of Big Bear Lake); after about 4½ miles, keeping right at forks in the road, turn ...

CHAMPION LODGEPOLE PINE: This mega tree stands at over 110 feet, and it is located near an easy-to-hike trail. As for a few way-cool facts you can share with the kids as you make the drive up the ...

In Vail, when lodgepole pines were cut to create a wildfire buffer zone between neighborhoods and the forest, several kinds of trees and plants repopulated the area in the years that followed. In ...

Scientists predict that lodgepole pine — one of the most common trees at higher elevations in the Cascades and Rockies — will be largely gone from the Northwest due to the warming climate.

In Vail, when lodgepole pines were cut to create a wildfire buffer zone between neighborhoods and the forest, several kinds of trees and plants repopulated the area in the years that followed. In ...

Sagebrush steppe and lodgepole pine forests are two of the most widespread vegetation types in the western United States and they play crucial roles in the hydrologie cycle of these water-limited ...

But the mountain pine beetle epidemic was always going to end, as there are only so many ponderosa and lodgepole trees in the 3.3 million acres affected by the tree-killing insects in Colorado.

The Forest Service estimates that “since 1996, about 3.4 million acres of lodgepole and ponderosa pine forests have exhibited mountain pine beetle-caused tree mortality.” ...

The Nature Conservancy, along with workers from Summit County government, planted aspen seedlings Sept. 30 in areas where lodgepole trees had been removed, and over the next few years, the group ...