Mountain pine beetles have burrowed into ... has left countless dead and dying lodgepole pines across roughly 800,000 acres of the Cascade Range, up from perhaps 20,000 acres nine years ago ...

Lodgepole pine, a hardy tree species that can thrive in cold temperatures and plays a key role in many western ecosystems, is already shrinking in range as a result of climate change -- and may ...

Lodgepole pine, a hardy tree species that can thrive in cold temperatures and plays a key role in many western ecosystems, is already shrinking in range as a result of ...

With the widest range of all of the pine species in the ... It's hardier than other pines. The lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) can be identified by its slender trunk and narrow crown.

The pest is none other than the mountain pine beetle ... Front Range and the Mosquito Range in Chaffee County and Park County. The bugs also found and damaged lodgepole pine forests in Gunnison ...

When Garrett Dickman drove through Yosemite National Park early this week, he passed through a diverse band of large trees – conifer, red fir, lodgepole pine – and noticed a grim pattern ...

Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) grows in the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to northern New Mexico, in the Black Hills and on the Pacific Coast.Poles of this tree were used by Native Americans for ...

If a skier was to stand motionless for several days in the upper mountains of Whitefish, or any other West Coast mountain range ... of the snow ghosts are lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta).

That is 1,860 feet higher in elevation than the highest Jeffrey pine on record and even higher than lodgepole, limber and foxtail pines. To date, none of the six traditional subalpine forest ...

Prescribed burn associations are proving key to conservationists’ efforts to restore a longleaf pine range forming the backbone of forest ecology in the American Southeast. Volunteer teams ...