The young and young at heart alike starting Saturday will enjoy an entirely new outdoor play experience at the High Desert Museum. Years in the making, the E. L. Wiegand Ponderosa Playscape will open ...

It’s native to western pine forests, especially lodgepole and ponderosa forests ... the few species that do kill trees tend to target highly stressed ones. The mountain pine beetle is the ...

Micki Long, Bitterroot Forest Collaborative We stare up, through hundreds of branches, large and small, trying to see the top of a huge, old-growth Ponderosa Pine. We think about […] ...

An annual report from the Colorado State Forest Service suggests that the prevalence of Mountain Pine Beetles has increased since 2021 ...

The region’s forests are adapted to fire. It’s a natural and necessary part of the ecosystem. Today’s megafires, though, burn ...

A UC Davis field crew measures a large ponderosa pine while conducting forest inventory ... the area — share space with at least 13 other tree species. Yet despite its high conservation value ...

Look for pygmy nuthatches and other small birds foraging for insects in the bark of the ponderosa trees ... of the mountain. Snowshoe hare tracks are abundant in this area. A pine squirrel ...