The beetles can kill many species of pines, but the current outbreak is mainly in lodgepole ... mountain pine beetle has substantially increased its geographic range, killing trees 450 miles further ...

Other common names for Pinus contorta, the scientific name for lodgepole pine, include shore pine, twisted pine, and contorta pine. The subspecies local to Colorado is the Rocky Mountain lodgepole ...

The terrifying beetle-kill headlines from the mid-2010s were as relentless and depressing as the swaths of rust-red dead lodgepole on ... pest, the mountain pine beetle, according to CSU.

The MRS is located in the Front Range of the southern Rocky Mountains in Boulder County ... researchers have access to a multitude of vegetation types, including ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, aspen, ...