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 ...

All year round in the mountains you can see green, and we are not talking about money. Covered in snow or surrounded by wildflowers, Colorado’s many species of evergreen trees are true to their name — ...

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 ...