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 ...

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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 ...

The lodgepole pine is found on high mountain slopes at elevations above 6,000 feet and is typical of the upper foothills, in the wettest parts of the eastern slope and on western slopes in fire ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few years after the Yellowstone fire of 1988, I was driving into the park from West Yellowstone. The blackened landscape was still almost ubiquitous, but there among the charred remains of forests a ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Scientists predict that lodgepole pine — one of the most common trees at higher elevations in the Cascades and Rockies — will be largely gone from the Northwest by 2080 because of ...