A stand of whitebark pine dwarfed by the nearly 10,000-foot Dick's Peak in California's Sierra Nevada. (Courthouse News photo / Matthew Renda) They can survive winds of 100 miles an hour and hundreds ...

Imagine yourself walking quietly through a high-elevation subalpine forest. You feel immersed in shady stillness while enveloped by a fresh scent of pine, spruce and fir. You gaze out at the trees ...

When hiking through subalpine forests in Colorado, the pine grosbeak is a treat on the treeline trail. I often encounter them when hiking in the mountains near timberline at around 11,000 feet.

Better understanding of hydrologic processes in soil are needed to improve understanding of ecosystem changes that could result from climate change and mountain pine beetle mortality in Colorado’s ...

A study assesses the impact of short-interval severe fires on the resilience of subalpine forests. Although the subalpine forests of the northern United States Rocky Mountains have survived severe ...

The recent mountain pine beetle epidemic in the Colorado River Basin has resulted in widespread tree mortality in lodgepole pine stands across the Colorado Plateau. The mountain pine beetle (MPB) ...

Sandwiched between a lodgepole pine on the left and a foxtail pine on the right is the first Jeffrey pine tree UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford observed in Sept. 2024 on a hike along Mount Kaweah in ...

Whitebark pine depends heavily on nutcrackers for seed dispersal and germination; but if whitebark pine seeds aren't abundant, the nutcracker will find another food source, making it harder for ...

• Some coniferous forest ecosystems undergo complete photosynthetic down-regulation in winter. The present study examined the influence of several environmental parameters on intrinsic, needle-level ...