The trail eventually crosses a bridge into the highlight of the forest – an evergreen pine plantation. Camp was well-known ...

Lodgepole pine depends on fire to melt the resin that surrounds its seeds so they can be released. The acacia tree “recruits” ants to carry its resinous seeds underground where they can then ...

Night - Clear. Winds from N to NNE at 3 to 9 mph (4.8 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 63 °F (17.2 °C). Sunny with a high of 85 °F (29.4 °C). Winds from N to NNW at 3 to 7 mph (4.8 to ...

No open burning or campfires were allowed in Pine County because of ongoing dry and windy conditions, according to the DNR’s fire danger map on Friday. Fire danger in the forest on Monday was ...

Sort of. But instead of brewing up a cup, U.S. Forest Service scientists found that sprinkling tiny flakes containing the pheromone verbenone over lodgepole pine forests cut the number of trees ...

A native pine marten has been spotted on the Longleat estate following reintroduction programmes in the Forest of Dean and the New Forest. The elusive mammal was once common across the UK but ...

The authors Kristen Pelz, a U.S. Forest Service forester, and Tony Cheng, director at the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute at Colorado State University, said the pine beetle epidemic happened ...

said the pine beetle epidemic happened because, "large expanses of lodgepole and other pine trees across North America were reaching an age ripe for beetle infestation." "Because many forests were ...

Night - Clear. Winds from E to ESE at 5 to 6 mph (8 to 9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 47 °F (8.3 °C). Mostly cloudy with a high of 68 °F (20 °C). Winds variable at 5 to 8 mph (8 to 12.9 ...

Citizens here are turning dead lodgepole pines into pencils and pens, log homes, furniture, pellet fuel and more - hoping to make a buck and avert a potential disaster. Residents fret that millions of ...