That resilience is a tribute to the evolutionary history of the lodgepole pine, a tree whose relationship to wildfire runs deep. The species’ ramrod trunks and slender crowns blanket much of the ...

Possible causes have focused primarily on climate change induced stress on the trees, rendering them more susceptible ... but the current outbreak is mainly in lodgepole pine. Mitton and Ferrenberg’s ...

It’s native to western pine forests, especially lodgepole and ponderosa forests, where it normally lives in relatively small numbers, killing a tree or two here and there. It’s been normal too ...

A delimber machine operator cuts and strips a lodgepole pine tree and then puts it into stack of trees to be hauled off to a local lumber mill at the Owl Mountain, Good Neighbor Authority project ...