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  • Lodgepole Pine: Wildfires Create Signature Montana Forests

    Peter Kolb, UM College of Forestry and Conservation|Updated Nov 29, 2023

    Life gets busy for everyone. We all dream about getting away from it all for an hour, a day or perhaps even a week. My favorite is to go for a hike through one of Montana's lodgepole pine-covered mountainsides and stretch out under the trees on a bed of pinegrass and dwarf huckleberry, also known as grouse whortleberry, and listening to the wind gently whisper its secrets through the tree crowns and needles. The lodgepole pine forests that cover several million acres of Montan...