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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — On a plateau north of the Madison River, there are dense stands ...

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 ...

Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 27, No. 4 (July 2016), pp. 780-788 (9 pages) Aim: Climate change will alter the geographic distribution of many species, but in forest communities, long-lived trees ...

Note: Due to active fires, please check ahead on trail openings and highway updates, wherever your destination might be. You can also find Big Bear Lake's pandemic safety policies here and California ...

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 ...