Sentences with word «lodgepole»

«A weaker defense system may also be why we are seeing a strong preference now by the beetle for whitebark pine over lodgepole pine, which has long been its preferred host.»

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Some of the fire scars stood adjacent to stands of lodgepole pine destroyed by beetles.

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What may be true for lodgepole pine forests in the Rocky Mountains may not be true for mixed conifer forests in the Sierra Nevada, he said.

Once the bottom of a large glacial lake, these rolling sand hills are home to vegetation such as lodgepole pines as well as plant species that arrived via Berengia thousands of years ago.

Cat — DSH, black / white, male who was found on Lodgepole Lane in Oak Harbor.

Inside, relax in the cozy atmosphere where lodgepole pine beams and river rock pillars provide a rustic elegance, which is sure to delight.

But just as the bird has become eligible for protection under the Endangered Species Act, its future is uncertain: an increasing number of days over 90 degrees has disrupted the cycle of seed dispersal from lodgepole cones.

«Soil biota explains tree growth: Why the Canadian lodgepole pine does better in Sweden than Canada.»

oil on canvas flag with lodgepole pine flagpole (estate of Joane Cardinal - Schubert, photo by Dave Brown, LCR Photo Services, University of Calgary)

The South Hills crossbill, potentially a newly discovered species of finch, has evolved over the past 6,000 years with a unique dependence on its food source, the Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine, in a coevolutionary arms race that also changed the tree, according to a genomic study led by Tom Parchman, a biologist at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Cat — DSH, black, male who was found on Lodgepole Lane in Oak Harbor.

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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.

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.

And many organisms have evolved to like it hot: pine cones on many lodgepole pines won't open without tickling flames, she said.

She started with mice, putting 126 bodies into individual containers with soil from three places: a short grass prairie and a subalpine lodgepole pine forest in Colorado, and a desert in Texas.

The genomic data in the paper contributes to a long history of research on the coevolutionary interaction between lodgepole pine and red crossbills in the South Hills of Idaho to produce one of the only well documented examples of coevolution directly causing the formation of a new species.

Mark Rudnicki and his colleagues attached tiltmeters to 10 trees in a natural cluster of close - growing lodgepole pines (Pinus contorta latifolia) in Alberta.

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.

Almost all of my original research has been with plants — Joshua trees, Medicago truncatula, now lodgepole pine and interior spruce.

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Lac Le Jeune Provincial Park - The park is nestled amongst lodgepole pine, spruce and fir, is an easily - accessible getaway spot.

Lodgepole Campground in Sequoia is on a reservation system from Memorial Day weekend through mid-October.

, and some trees have defenses against them, including lodgepole pines.

You want us to publish the claim that climate change is killing lodgepole pines, but you've admitted elsewhere that poor forestry practices, monocultures and the suppression of fire, not just warmer weather, created an overabundance of the older trees those beetles love to eat, hence the population explosion.

A 2011 study led by Martin Simard of the University of Wisconsin looked at lodgepole pine forests in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, which encompasses parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, and found that when it comes to beetles and fire, «contrary to conventional wisdom, the interaction was a negative feedback in which the probability of active crown fire appeared to be reduced.»

Upon graduation from forestry school 30 years ago, I was handed a chainsaw, sent to Colorado, and told to thin lodgepole pine forests to beetle - proof them against the then on - going epidemic (how well did that work?).

The MPB is attacking a set of highly important pine species (Pinus spp.) over a very large area of western North America, especially lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis), but also some of the other five needle pines (esp.

Also, is that mostly lodgepole you're seeing, do you know?

Large swaths of dead / dying lodgepole pines were visible on the east side, especially on the south - facing slopes.

Lodgepoles higher up.

Tree spatial patterns are a component in this thing and are one of the reasons that species like lodgepole, ponderosa and whitebark pine get hit so hard — they are all capable of forming single species stands, making contagious spread easier, especially given that pheromone signalling is involved.

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For the tabletop, we used two 20 - inch by 8 - foot long lodgepole pine panels that we found at our local home improvement store.

University of Wyoming ecologist Craig Benkman and his colleagues discovered the Cassia crossbill in a range of just 27 square miles of lodgepole forest.

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For lodgepole pine, the model showed it would take 79 years for the first post-fire stands to become highly susceptible to bark beetle outbreaks, and 115 years for half of the stands to reach vulnerability.

Lower elevation trees, such as lodgepole pines and ponderosa pines, were the beetles» main targets.

In a second postdoc with Sally Aitken at the University of British Columbia, I studied the genetic architecture of adaptation to climate by lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and interior spruce (Picea glauca, P. engelmannii, and their hybrids) with the AdapTree project.

Thanks to its excellent growth, the Canadian lodgepole pine has become a popular feature of forestry in Northern Sweden.

Each hairpin turn opens onto a different landscape: around one, a hillside flush with lodgepole pine; around the next, a blackened slope where bare trunks stand out like so many toothpicks against the sky.

The South Hills crossbill coevolved for the past 6,000 years with the Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine.