Sentences with phrase «lodgepoles higher»
Lodgepoles higher up.
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As I go higher, big - bellied ponderosa pines give way to slim lodgepole pines and firs, and blooms of white yarrow and blue larkspur border the roadway.
The ghost tree of Railroad Ridge Somewhere in the Cloud Mountains of central Idaho, high above a sea of spruce and lodgepole pine, a jagged crest of peaks called Railroad Ridge juts up against the sky.
While higher - elevation lodgepole pines are historically adapted to stand - replacing fires — their serotinous cones only open under high heat — the Forest Service is concerned that ponderosas will not regenerate in those areas on their own, she said.
Beginning in late summer along high altitude sites in the eastern Colorado Rocky Mountains, for instance, swarms of hundreds or even thousands of these small black bugs will single out individual lodgepole pines (Pinus contorta) or related trees, then advance on them en masse.
Located in rural west Nebraska and the Lodgepole Valley, Kimball is one of the highest points in the Cornhusker State.
A few years ago, Six was stunned to find sites where the mountain pine beetle was skipping right over lower - altitude stands of lodgepole pines, to focus on and kill whitebark pine stands at higher altitudes.
Research published by Veblen and Clark University's Dominik Kulakowski in 2015 found that «the best available science indicates that outbreaks of bark beetles do not increase the risk of high - severity fires in lodgepole pine and spruce - fir forests of the Rocky Mountains.»