Nancy Bockino is a mountain guide based out of Jackson, Wyoming, as well as a field ecologist with more than 30 years ...

with pine trees in the foreground and snow-capped mountains in the distance, Incline Village, Nevada, February 16, 2025. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images At the time of writing, winter weather ...

Ironically, pine grosbeaks rarely nest in pine trees. Lichen ... further south and to lower elevations where mountain ash, crabapple, maple and winter staples are plentiful.

The whitebark pine is threatened specifically by development for winter recreation ... “These exceedingly beautiful trees are an icon of our western mountains and they need all the help they can get, ...

Over the past decade the Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendrocthonus ponderosae ... primarily on climate change induced stress on the trees, rendering them more susceptible to attack, as well as lower winter ...

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