It was a majestic limber pine tree that grew slowly on a rocky terrace above the Snake River in what is today Grand Teton National Park. It was a mere sapling when the first European colonists arrived ...
All pines are conifers, but all conifers are not pines; and further, all pines make cones, but all cones are not “pine cones.” Such details swirled through my mind as I walked Loveland’s streets named ...
As climate scientist Don Falk was hiking through a forest, the old, green pines stretched overhead. But he had the feeling that something was missing. Then his eyes found it: a seedling, brittle and ...
Increasing tree die-offs in the West are illustrated by these gray, needleless limber pine, the likely victims of drought, interspersed with orange, dead limber and ponderosa pine killed by Rocky ...
JACKSON — It watched as the Doane Expedition slogged and foundered along the icy river, a winter odyssey destined to fail. It watched as the off-duty Army soldier or surveyor who discovered the three ...