Mammoth Lakes, nestled in California's Eastern Sierra, is a haven of natural beauty, boasting rugged peaks and pristine lakes ...

MISSOULA — A squirrel’s appetite for certain pine seeds may be driving evolutionary changes in lodgepole forests across the West and altering how the trees respond to fire, a study ...

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 ...

Supply volunteers to remove more than one mile of old barb wire fencing from Rabbit Mountain, which supports abundant wildlife. Chaffee County. Remove dense or diseased lodgepole pine across 911 acres ...

The study included 23 tree species native to Wyoming, including Engelmann spruce, subalpine fir, limber pine, lodgepole pine, ponderosa pine, aspen, Rocky Mountain juniper and plains cottonwood.

Colorado blue spruce is most frequently associated with Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca) and Rocky Mountain ponderosa pine and with white fir (Abies concolor) on wet ...

“But the parents of that lodgepole are from the Pacific Northwest.” Martinez said that genetically, trees from the Pacific Northwest are adapted to cooler temperatures, cloudy days, and more moisture ...

In the lodgepole-pine forests typical of high elevations in the Rocky Mountains, on the other hand, the story is different. Those forests naturally burn only once every 75 to 300 years, in severe ...

The setting is a beautiful lodgepole pine forest surrounded by hills and mountains. ... This “First Day Ever” of life as a Rocky Mountain Youth Corps crew member has since been repeated over 40,000 ...

As Rocky Mountain National Park’s only “fourteener” (a moniker for the 58 Colorado mountains that rise more than 14,000 feet above sea level), Longs Peak towers over area summits.

Day 2 of the Bluewater International Ski Club’s trip to Whitefish, Mont. was a disappointment, a chance you take when you strap on a pair of skis. Whitefish Mountain Resort is a ski resort with ...

Day 2 of the Bluewater International Ski Club’s trip to Whitefish, Montana was a disappointment, a chance you take when you strap on a pair of skis. Whitefish Mountain Resort is a ski resort with a ...