lower elevation lodgepole pine forest that may be replaced by sagebrush steppe and high elevation spruce fir forest experiencing slower bark beetle infestation and much higher precipitation inputs. We ...

The top of the lodgepole pine is brittle and rust-colored. The tree’s middle section is missing some of its bark, and it has ...

As she peeled back the bark with her ax ... It’s native to western pine forests, especially lodgepole and ponderosa forests, where it normally lives in relatively small numbers, killing a ...