Tag: mountain pine beetle
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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…
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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, Science Geek 