Families and children visiting the High Desert Museum have access to a new outdoor play area that is modeled on the ponderosa pine tree. The E. L. Wiegand Ponderosa Playscape opened earlier this month ...

Colorado’s warm and dry winters have tipped the balance in a long-running ecological tug-of-war. The mountain pine beetles, native insects to the Centennial State, have recently exploded in numbers in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Vast swaths of the ponderosa pine forests that blanket Colorado’s Front Range mountains could turn rust-colored and die over the next five years as pine ...

COMPANY WHO’S SEEN A BOOM IN BUSINESS AS. SLICING. AND DICING. THESE PINE TREES HAVE TO COME DOWN. >> I DON’T THINK WE’VE EXPERIENCED ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN 40 YEARS. >> YOU SEE THESE HOLES, YOU SEE ...