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 ...

I sat at midday in the sun, in a lodgepole pine forest being thinned by bark beetles. I was taking a break for lunch and enjoying the view when I realized that not only was I not alone, but somebody ...

It’s not exactly turning a sow’s ear into a silk purse, but Cobalt Technologies Inc. is aiming to transform pine-bark-beetle-killed lodgepole pines into motor fuel. A Colorado State University lab is ...

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 ...

Better understanding of hydrologic processes in soil are needed to improve understanding of ecosystem changes that could result from climate change and mountain pine beetle mortality in Colorado’s ...

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 ...