The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s forests, she realized, were more resilient than anyone had imagined. That resilience is a tribute to the evolutionary history of the lodgepole pine, a tree whose ...

It’s native to western pine forests, especially lodgepole and ponderosa forests, where it normally lives in relatively small numbers, killing a tree or two here and there. It’s been normal too ...

Possible causes have focused primarily on climate change induced stress on the trees, rendering them more susceptible to attack ... The beetles can kill many species of pines, but the current outbreak ...

Fish, Wildlife & Parks is once again poised to log a portion of the Blackfoot-Clearwater Wildlife Management Area.

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 ...