A tiny, unassuming Colorado insect has been spotted making a big mark on lodgepole pines. Foresters are finding that the insect, called pine needle scale, has been causing lodgepoles to appear sickly, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Despite its overall eco-friendliness, camping in the Colorado forest this summer might be a little less green. The forest canopy important to so many campers is under attack by epidemic proportions of ...
BRECKENRIDGE — 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 ...