Fremont County Commissioner Blair Dance had long wondered about the history of an enormous Colorado blue spruce growing in ...

Luke FaulksLocal Journalism Initiative ReporterPique NewsmagazineIn 2023, a wildfire ripped through the Downton Lake area of ...

In 2023, a wildfire ripped through the Downton Lake area of the Upper Bridge River Valley (BRV), destroying more than 40 ...

Have you ever gone for a walk in the woods, picked up a pinecone, and wondered if it could tell you something about the world ...

This Jeffrey pine is an older specimen, an estimated 25 years old. It is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and was found near timberline. As is common for taller specimens, it has a dead top. Jeffrey pines are ...

Sandwiched between a lodgepole pine on the left and a foxtail pine on the right is the first Jeffrey pine tree UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford observed in Sept. 2024 on a hike along Mount Kaweah in ...

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

The column turned out to be steam — and not just any steam. It was coming from a new thermal vent, according to a recent blog post by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Yellowstone Volcano ...

The stock produced within the glasshouse will mostly be conifer species such as Scots pine, lodgepole pine, Sitka, and Norway spruce. The new glasshouse is hoped to provide a protective and controlled ...

Using the camera's time-lapse mode, Khadka monitored germination, growth and survival of lodgepole pine seedlings in a commercial tree nursery. ... Similarly, there was no significant difference ...

Combined with the fact nurseries grow pine seedlings for a fraction of the cost of spruce or Douglas fir, there is a strong financial incentive to plant mostly lodgepole pine.

PAYSON — When lightning ignited chaparral and ponderosa pine litter to form the West Fire one night in late August, U.S. Forest Service fire managers knew they had some room to let it run ...