The beetle is also called the Black Hills beetle or Rocky Mountain pine beetle and has the scientific name Dendroctonus ponderosae. This beetle will impact ponderosa, limber, and bristlecone pine ...

Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) is a two-needled pine that grows at elevations as high as 12,000 feet and is well suited to the White River National Forest ecosystem. It is often called Rocky ...

Feb. 27—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 ...

• Lodgepole pine will not disappear from the southern Rocky Mountains. The make-up of our forests will change where mountain pine beetles cause high mortality.

Results of a new study show that episodes of reduced precipitation in the Southern Rocky Mountains, especially during the 2001-2002 drought, greatly accelerated a rise in numbers of mountain pine ...

Lodgepole pine forest is a burn threat this summer. Published: May. 02, 2009, 6:00 p.m. By . Richard Cockle, The Oregonian; Forecasts for hot, dry weather and lightning storms -- plus a widespread ...

Brian Verhulst, a forester at Rocky Mountain National Park, said lodgepole pine forests are a "disturbance-dependent community." While dependent on fire, lodgepole is also very resistant to it.

SUMMIT COUNTY ” An experimental fire planned for beetle-killed lodgepole pines in Rocky Mountain National Park should help determine when the trees are most flammable. Officials incessantly cite ...

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 pine beetle infestation is spreading from the mountains into southern Wyoming and the Front Range, and all of Colorado’s mature lodgepole pine forests will be killed within three to five years ...

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 ...