One of the most widespread coniferous trees in western North America, lodgepole ... symbiotic fungal species and the western ...
It’s native to western pine forests, especially lodgepole and ponderosa ... that are already dead or dying. Only a few species burrow into healthy trees, and of those, most go in as a lone ...
Possible causes have focused primarily on climate change induced stress on the trees, rendering them more ... The beetles can kill many species of pines, but the current outbreak is mainly in ...
Because Idaho has a varied range of latitudes, altitudes, soils, and precipitation patterns, the state has a wider variety of native trees than most other Rocky Mountain states. The first step in ...