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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 ...

BILLINGS — If there's a plant-based poster child for wildland fire in the subalpine forests of Yellowstone National Park, it would be the cone of the lodgepole pine tree. "All of these forests evolved ...

Hunting for this ancient tree takes you farther into San Bernardino Mountains territory and deeper into its history. The Champion Lodgepole Pine is about 440 years old, which means it germinated ...

Climate change might kill off lodgepole pines in the Pacific Northwest by 2080, a new study out of Oregon State University concludes. And as soon as 2020, this tree that thrives in cold temperatures ...

YAKUTAT — “There they are,” Ben Gaglioti said, after a short hike off a gravel road leading away from this small fishing town. Gaglioti walked in rubber boots on a green, squishy carpet of muskeg — a ...

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 the twists ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Have you ever stood on Gobbler's Knob on the South Plateau overlooking the Town Of West ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GOULD — Stunned by unprecedented megafires, Colorado is embracing logging — mowing holes up to 140 acres in beetle-infested lodgepole pines — in an effort to ...