That resilience is a tribute to the evolutionary history of the lodgepole pine, a tree whose relationship to wildfire runs deep. The species’ ramrod trunks and slender crowns blanket much of the ...

The beetles can kill many species of pines, but the current outbreak is mainly in lodgepole pine. Mitton and Ferrenberg’s primary beetle study site is at an elevation of 10,000 feet at the Mountain ...

Nine years after the 2012 High Park Fire burned a stand of lodgepole pine that had been severely affected by the mountain pine beetle, lodgepole and aspen saplings were rebounding on this slope in the ...