News tagged with ponderosa pine forests
Warming Climate Means Trouble For Southwest Plantlife
This month, fires have charred tens of thousands of acres in New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. After more than a decade of drought, these large seasonal fires are increasingly a part of life in the Southwest, and fire can ...
Jun 27, 2010 |
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HOT ISSUE: Should we deliberately move species?
(AP) -- On naked patches of land in western Canada and United States, scientists are planting trees that don't belong there. It's a bold experiment to move trees threatened by global warming into places where ...
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Ancient tree-ring records from southwest U.S. suggest today's megafires are truly unusual
Today’s mega forest fires of the southwestern U.S. are truly unusual and exceptional in the long-term record, suggests a new study that examined hundreds of years of ancient tree ring and fire data from ...
May 16, 2012 |
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Warm winters mean more pine beetles, tree damage
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some populations of mountain pine beetles now produce two generations of tree-killing offspring annually, dramatically increasing the potential for bugs to kill lodgepole and ponderosa pine ...
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Discovery of pine beetles breeding twice in a year helps explain increasing damage, researchers say
(PhysOrg.com) -- Long thought to produce only one generation of tree-killing offspring annually, some populations of mountain pine beetles now produce two generations per year, dramatically increasing the ...
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Tree-ring science takes on the modern age
Whether it's learning how forests respond to environmental change or answering questions about the history of ancient cultures, trees continue to be a solid source of information for many kinds of researchers.
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Feb 24, 2012 |
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Controlling forest fires
Simon Fraser University statistician Rick Routledge will share his knowledge of what layers of charcoal in lake-bottom sediment can tell us about an area's forest fire history, at the world's largest science fair in Vancouver.
Feb 17, 2012 |
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Climate change causing massive movement of tree species across the West
A huge "migration" of trees has begun across much of the West due to global warming, insect attack, diseases and fire, and many tree species are projected to decline or die out in regions where they have been present for ...
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Climate-change-induced wildfires may alter Yellowstone forests
Climate change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem will increase the frequency of wildfires and alter the composition of the forests by 2050, according to a team of ecologists who modeled the effects of higher ...
Jul 25, 2011 |
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Presence of mountain pine beetles more evident on northern Front Range
If you saw red when visiting the northern Front Range foothills over the past few weekends, you’re not alone.
Jun 07, 2011 |
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Lord of the tree rings
Trees are outstanding historians. In fact, scientists dating back to Leonardo da Vinci recognized the value of trees. While others had figured out that you could determine the age of a tree by counting its ...
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Climate change causing demise of lodgepole pine in western North America
Lodgepole pine, a hardy tree species that can thrive in cold temperatures and plays a key role in many western ecosystems, is already shrinking in range as a result of climate change – and may almost ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
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