Tag: lodgepole pine

• Pika Patrol, Part Two

  My husband, my son, his girlfriend and I went up to my Pika Patrol (Pika Patrol, Part One) site over the weekend. After thrashing about a bit learning how to use the GPS, we found the appointed talus slope. Located on the north shore of Grand Lake just south of Rocky Mountain National Park, researchers…

  Amy Law

  September 27, 2017

  Colorado Mileposts

  aspen, chipmunk, Citizen Science, Colorado, Englemann spruce, lodgepole pine, pika, Pika Patrol, Rocky Mountain National Park, science

• Aspen on Mt. Evans

  We love our quaking aspen in Colorado, and never more than at this time of year. They are turning now, and they won’t last long. I took a drive up to Evergreen last week and found a little meadow ringed with quakies, some of which hadn’t turned yet. Aspen are in the cottonwood family. You…

  Amy Law

  September 26, 2016

  Colorado Mileposts

  aspen, CO, Colorado, Evergreen, lodgepole pine, mountain pine beetle, Mt. Evans, natural history, nature

• BioBlitz 2012 — Mountain Pine Beetles

  For the afternoon session of Rocky Mountain National Park BioBlitz 2012, my son and I learned about mountain pine beetles from Dave Leatherman, retired Colorado State Forest Service entomologist. We met in an old ponderosa savanna near the Lawn Lake Alluvial Fan. Mountain pine beetles have been in the news for the past few years…

  Amy Law

  August 28, 2012

  Colorado Mileposts

  BioBlitz, lodgepole pine, mountain pine beetle, nature, Rocky Mountain National Park