One of the first surprises that I had when I started looking into Summit County forests and the wisdom or lack thereof of clear-cutting was to learn that lodgepole pine are not the natural “climax” ...

To improve forest health and encourage a more diverse ecosystem, scientists are studying new ways to harvest lodgepole as an alternative to clear-cutting. Fire history and the importance of fire in a ...

Though the trap-tree technique is frequently effective against spruce beetles, it's totally useless, for instance, against the mountain pine beetle ravaging the lodgepole forest. "There's a lot of ...

This unique thick-scaled old growth lodgepole forest is only about 44 square miles in size. Within this small area, there are about 6,000 Cassia Crossbills. Thus, this species is vulnerable to ...

The biggest risk to long-term forest health may come from super-hot, earth-baking fires 20 to 30 years after a bug infestation, when the trees are dead on the ground. And even then, it's important to ...