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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have developed a computer model that predicts the lodgepole pine – one of the most common trees at high elevations in the Cascades and Rockies – will be largely driven out of the Northwest ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Fire officials were expecting to have the Lodgepole fire, south of Leadville, which started Saturday in the San Isabel National Forest, fully contained ...

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 ...