Lodgepole pine is used for building cabins, telephone poles, and fence poles. There is an abundance of dead beetle-killed lodgepole pines in our area and all over western United States and Canada.

The density of lodgepole pine is about 29 pounds per cubic foot at 10 percent MC. This means that a dried piece of lumber 1 inch x 6 inch x 10 feet (actual size ¾ inch x 5-1/2 inch x 10 feet ...

The lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) originates from western North America. In the north of Sweden, the lodgepole pine has been planted on hundreds of thousands of acres.

To get to the lodgepole pine trail head, take California 38 to Mill Creek Road (about 1 mile west of the city of Big Bear Lake); after about 4½ miles, keeping right at forks in the road, turn ...

In an area where lodgepole has been logged with little disturbance to the ground, “the grass takes over, and ironically grass does a really good job of outcompeting the little baby pine trees ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Scientists predict that lodgepole pine – one of the most common trees at higher elevations in the Cascades and Rockies – will be largely gone from the Northwest by 2080 ...

This beetle will impact ponderosa, limber, and bristlecone pine trees, but the lodgepole pine is the most susceptible. I worked as a supervisory park ranger naturalist in Rocky Mountain National Park ...

Oregon has about 1.3 billion lodgepole pine trees. Combined with the expected climate change-related lengthening of the fire season from spring to autumn and the overgrown state of many of Oregon’s ...

A pine beetle infestation is spreading from the mountains into southern Wyoming and the Front Range, and all of Colorado’s mature lodgepole pine forests will be killed within three to five years ...

He would carry them back to UAF, where he hopes to learn more about their history. Ben Gaglioti rests beneath a lodgepole pine near the town of Yakutat. (Courtesy Photo / Ned Rozell) ...

In Vail, when lodgepole pines were cut to create a wildfire buffer zone between neighborhoods and the forest, several kinds of trees and plants repopulated the area in the years that followed. In ...