In the parched summer of 1988, wildfires ripped through more than one-third of Yellowstone National Park during the most severe fire year in park history. Approximately 1.2 million acres scorched by ...

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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 ...

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“Lodgepole pine cones need fire to open up their fresh healthy cones and release the seeds,” she said. “We're mimicking the wildfire here with our cutting and pile burning.

also a fire research scientist with the Forest Service. Other trees, such as jack pine and lodgepole pine, are more resilient to fire, she said, but young trees are often the weakest after a blaze.

In the early 2000s, mountain pine beetles swarmed the basin, munching through and killing thousands of lodgepole pines. Nationwide, the insects have killed trees on nearly 8 million acres.