Resilient lodgepole may help Summit forests recover from pine beetle
Friday, 09 February 2018 12:44
SDN January 20, 2018, by Deepan Dutta
Fire, disease, logging — these are mortal enemies to most trees. Yet the lodgepole pine seems to thrive after disaster, and that is a bit of good news for Summit forests devastated by the mountain pine beetle.
Matt Schiltz, a forester with the Colorado State Forest Service, gave a presentation Tuesday to the Forest Health Task Force about the lodgepole's resiliency. The task force is a collaborative program that brings together various forest-related government agencies and nonprofits to promote and educate about forest health.
Schiltz, who works out of the CSFS Granby field office, demonstrated... READ FULL ARTICLE