Previous studies reported that in response to warmer temperatures, the mountain pine beetle has substantially increased its geographic range, killing trees 450 miles further north in Canada and 2,000 ...

including Rocky Mountain National Park. Climate change is facilitating the spread of invasive grasses in the park as well as pine bark beetles, which are killing millions of trees. These changes, ...

Rocky Mountain National Park has a long history of employing naturalists. The first Chief Park Naturalist in RMNP was Dorr G. Yeager, who worked in the park from 1931 to 1935. A botanist by training, ...

Emily Griffoul of Colorado’s Betty Ford Alpine Gardens is searching mountain landscapes for plants that are in trouble as the climate warms.

What you do is really important and I want you to know that we are very grateful for all the effort you put into the work that we need so much.” ...