Results for keyword: lodgepole pine
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Face it: All forests are "sluts"
If an allegedly untouched piece of woodland is "virgin forest," what does that make a forest that’s been logged or burnt or otherwise used by humans over the years?
by Sharon Friedman, Apr 12, 2012 -
A sucker punch to the stomach: When trees turn red
Colorado's bark beetle epidemic is unlike anything that has ever happened to the state in its brief history.
by Allen Best, Aug 17, 2009 -
Two weeks in the West
A flurry of end-of-year easements saves lots of lovely landscapes; heli-skiing wins in Utah; snow-lovers help starving Colorado deer; a possible ceasefire on the Klamath; and bark beetles are destroying Colorado’s lodgepole pines.
by Jodi Peterson, Feb 04, 2008 -
A glimpse of the past in a grain of pollen
Montana paleoecologist Cathy Whitlock studies the recent geological past and looks for clues to the future of the West
by Melynda Coble, May 30, 2005 -
Global Warming's Unlikely Harbingers
Mountain pine beetles are attacking more forests and more varieties of trees — and thriving at higher elevations than ever before — and some scientists believe global climate change is at the root of the problem
by Michelle Nijhuis, Jul 19, 2004






