University of Alberta research provides new insight into how harmful fungal infections could affect the ability of lodgepole pines to defend themselves from deadly mountain pine beetle attacks. Using ...

Lodgepole pine is a prolific and reliable seed producer. Henry VIII sought a male descendant and had six wives and a bevy of mistresses during his reign as England’s king from 1509-1547.

Instead she beheld a green-and-black quilt, burned forests and living ones mingled across the landscape. A year later, lodgepole pine seedlings carpeted the ground so densely that, she said, “you ...