Colorado’s popular recreation areas were hit especially hard by the epidemic. Out of about 4.1 million acres of pine forests ...

An annual report from the Colorado State Forest Service suggests that the prevalence of Mountain Pine Beetles has increased ...

Over the past decade the Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendrocthonus ponderosae) has killed millions of pine trees from New Mexico to the Yukon ... but the current outbreak is mainly in lodgepole pine. Mitton ...

It’s native to western pine forests, especially lodgepole and ponderosa ... live in the U.S. and Canada. Most bark beetles lay eggs under the bark of trees that are already dead or dying.

He also notes how it is a difficult task to change opinion and habit on a familiar name for trees ... forester is a pine species much larger than lodgepole pine, has a grayish bark (lodgepole ...

A delimber machine operator cuts and strips a lodgepole pine tree and then puts it into stack of trees to be hauled off to a local lumber mill at the Owl Mountain, Good Neighbor Authority project ...