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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Gusty winds blew a dead lodgepole pine tree down onto power lines around 3:20 p.m. on Tuesday ...

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 ...

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 ...

Janice Cooke remembers the first time she heard bugs murder a tree over the phone. It was at the height of the petulance plague, when the warming Canadian Rockies gave rise to swarms of beetles so ...