but one species of pine tree easily withstands snow, ice, and wind without breaking: the limber pine (Pinus flexilis). Also known as the Rocky Mountain white pine, limber pines are native to the ...

Previous studies reported that in response to warmer temperatures, the mountain pine beetle has substantially increased its geographic range, killing trees 450 miles further north in Canada and 2,000 ...

It's hard enough to accept that a tree ... pine? A place that in certain areas hosts but a few forlorn clumps of that symbol of Western fortitude, the sagebrush, and in others looks like the rocky ...

including Rocky Mountain National Park. Climate change is facilitating the spread of invasive grasses in the park as well as pine bark beetles, which are killing millions of trees. These changes, ...

318-324 (7 pages) The above discussion indicates that the two forms of western yellow pine possess definite inherent silvical ... Cieslar (4) has emphasized the importance of climatic varieties of ...