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 ...

SUMMIT COUNTY — 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 Colorado’s high country ...

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 ...

These lodgepole pine seedlings grew naturally in Yellowstone following the fires of 1988. Today they are over 20 feet tall. ©Terry R. Thomas/www.nature-track.com ...

The numbers are impressive. The latest reforestation project includes the planting of 79,000 seedlings over 270 acres of the Lake Christine burn area: 46,000 are Engelmann spruce, and 33,000 are ...

GIRD POINT – It’s June 3 and it looks like winter here on top of the Sapphire Mountains near the Gird Point Lookout.

GIRD POINT — It’s June 3 and it looks like winter here on top of the Sapphire Mountains near the Gird Point Lookout.

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 ...

Cripps wasn’t the first to consider the value of mycorrhizae; Austrian scientists have been inoculating European stone pine seedlings with fungal spores for 50 years.

Yet the lodgepole pine seems to thrive after disaster, and that is a bit of good news for. Serving Summit County, CO. Login. 9. Profile Newsletters Interests Bookmarks Reading History. Logout.

In the forest above Dillon Reservoir, fuels reduction treatments have been implemented on more than 10,000 acres, with almost 60 percent of those efforts coming in the form of clear-cuts to lodgepole ...