DENVER — Every large, mature lodgepole pine forest in Colorado and southern Wyoming will be dead within three to five years, killed in a mountain pine beetle infestation unprecedented in the state. In ...
SUMMIT COUNTY — Fire, disease, logging — these are mortal enemies to most trees. Yet the lodgepole pine seems to thrive after disaster, and that is a bit of good news for Colorado’s high country ...
Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 39, No. 11, Special Issue: Seed Dispersal on Islands (November 2012), pp. 2052-2060 (9 pages) Aim: As climate change is increasing the frequency, severity and extent of ...
In Vail, when lodgepole pines were cut to create a wildfire buffer zone between neighborhoods and the forest, several kinds of trees and plants repopulated the area in the years that followed. In ...