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 ...

Promotional Widget for Post Register.These lodgepole pine seedlings grew naturally in Yellowstone following the fires of 1988. Today they are over 20 feet tall.

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 ...

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 ...

Adrian Garcia prepares to plant one of the nearly 15,000 lodgepole seedlings that he and others planted in a 60-acre plot near Gird Point on the Bitterroot National Forest Monday. This year, about ...

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 ...

Photo of regrowth in lodgepole pine near Arrow in 2013, three years post-harvest. Among the green tufts of grass, tiny lodgepole seedlings are barely visible, about 6 inches to a foot in height ...

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 ...