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 ...

Here are a few easy statistics for you to remember: 80 percent of Yellowstone’s landscapes are forested and 80 percent of Yellowstone’s forest is made up of lodgepole pine trees. You will see ...

University of Alberta researchers have, for the first time, captured a much better view of what may be contributing to failures in lodgepole pine seed ...

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 ...

Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) is the most widespread pine species in North America; ranging from the Yukon to California’s Baja. The Latin part of its scientific name “contorta” refers to the twists ...

Police find drug filled cars while investigating $40k copper wire theft in Ballard A Ballard construction site has been plagued by a series of thefts over the past four months, with the most recent ...

Dead, beetle-killed lodgepole pines have become an all-too-common site in the Colorado High Country. Unfortunately, Summit and Grand counties are at the epicenter of the red tide sweeping through the ...

ASPEN ” The burgeoning death rate of the state’s lodgepole pines is virtually unstoppable no matter what is done to slow the spread of the mountain pine bark beetle infestation in Colorado, a new ...

Climate change might kill off lodgepole pines in the Pacific Northwest by 2080, a new study out of Oregon State University concludes. And as soon as 2020, this tree that thrives in cold temperatures ...

Hunting for this ancient tree takes you farther into San Bernardino Mountains territory and deeper into its history. The Champion Lodgepole Pine is about 440 years old, which means it germinated ...

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 ...