That’s a billion cubic meters of wood. The trees aren’t the only ... only 17 percent of British Columbia’s lodgepole pine forests were ripe for a beetle attack a century ago.

Lodgepole pine is a species which grows throughout the west, as far north as the Yukon and south to Baja California. It ranges east to the Black Hills of South Dakota and west all the way to the ...

Forests with few tree species pose a considerably higher risk of being damaged, and the introduced lodgepole pine is especially ... ability of forests to provide wood and other tree products.

The genome of the fungus that helps mountain pine beetles infect and kill lodgepole pines has been decoded in a University of British Columbia study. Also known as blue stain fungus for the stain it ...