Environment Lodgepole pine forest is a burn threat this summer Published: May. 02, 2009, 6:00 p.m. By Richard Cockle, The Oregonian ...

The researchers concluded that some of these forces have been at work since at least 1980, and by around 2020 will have decreased the Pacific Northwest range of lodgepole pine by 8 percent. After ...

Lodgepole pine has two needles (rarely, three) per fascicle bundle. The fascicle bundle is the where needle clusters attach to the branch. Needles are about 2-inch long. Its bark is thin and scaly.

Better understanding of hydrologic processes in soil are needed to improve understanding of ecosystem changes that could result from climate change and mountain pine beetle mortality in Colorado’s ...

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.

The 2016 Maple fire on the west side of the park cooked through more than 45,000 acres. When Renkin and his colleagues visited the site the following spring they found lodgepole pine regeneration ...

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 ...

The group, For The Forest, is helping survey the state’s forests to determine, among other figures, exactly how many lodgepole pines there are in the White River National Forest and around Aspen. “Our ...

CANMORE, Alberta ” A 26-year-old woman from Canmore was killed when a large tree uprooted by a sudden wind storm fell on her in a disc golf course area of the town’s biathlon range. The Rocky Mountain ...

Fire, disease, logging — these are mortal enemies to most trees. Yet the lodgepole pine seems to thrive after disaster, and that is a bit of good news for Summit forests devastated by the mountain ...

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 ...