Killed by the mountain pine beetle and its symbiotic blue fungus infection, dead lodgepole pine stand out like grey ghosts among living trees in the...
Pedal-powered products made by Coaster Cycles are stacked at the company's manufacturing facility inside a former lumber mill's 120-year-old shipping...
Hellgate Forge Fabricator and Welder Troy Bloom welds handmade fixtures at the company's shop inside the former lumber mill's 100-year-old machine...
Log piles smolder after being harvested and burned as part of the Marshall Woods Restoration Project at the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area in...
Living and dead whitebark pine stand together at a U.S. Forest Service research and restoration site at the Snowbowl ski area in the Lolo National...
Burned trees killed by the 2018 Howe Ridge Fire stand like twigs against the evening sky September 17, 2019 in Glacier National Park, Montana....
Park Service Native Plant Restoration Program Nursery Crew Lead Levi Besaw and Revegetation Crew Lead Carleton Gritts return from planting whitebark...
Trees burned by the 2017 Sprague Creek Fire stand along the steep Mount Brown Lookout Trail September 17, 2019 in Glacier National Park, Montana. A...
Park Service Biological Science Technician Teresa Byrd digs a hole with a hoedad tool where she can plant a whitebark pine seedling among trees...
Park Service Native Plant Restoration Program Nursery Crew Lead Levi Besaw gently plants a whitebark pine seedling in ground blackened by fire on...
Park Service Animal Packers Jill Michalak and Jacob Ellis lead a team of mules back down the mountain after delivering gear, supplies and 585...
With Lake McDonald 4,300 feet below, trees burned by the 2017 Sprague Creek Fire stand along the steep trail to the Mt. Brown Lookout Station...
Park Service Revegetation Crew Lead Carleton Gritts hikes through fog among the trees blackened by the 2017 Sprague Creek Fire on his way to the Mt....
Park Service Animal Packers Jill Michalak and Jacob Ellis load gear, supplies and 585 two-year-old whitebark pine seedlings onto mules for the...
Like gray sticks standing along side living trees, mountain beetle-killed lodgepole pine stand at the edge of a logged area along the Reservation...
Mountain pine beetle-killed lodgepole pine tree rises like gray ghost along the Reservation Divide September 14, 2019 on the Flathead Indian...
Like scars against the sky, a stand of mountain pine beetle-killed lodgepole pine trees rise like gray ghosts along the Reservation Divide September...
The sun-bleached skeleton of a 2000-year-old whitebark pine tree named 'Illawia,' which means great-great-grandparent in the Salish languge, stand...
Shaped by wind and rock, the sun-bleached skeleton of long-dead whitebark pine tree bends at the top of a 7,200-foot-high ridge along the Reservation...
The sun-bleached skeleton of long-dead whitebark pine tree trunk stands at the top of a 7,200-foot-high ridge along the Reservation Divide September...
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Preservation Office Program Manager Mike Durglo Jr. Greets what remains of a 2000-year-old whitebark pine...
Members and guests of the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation take a guided hike into the mountains of the Flathead Indian Reservation to see...
Standing and fallen, lodgepole pine trees killed by the mountain pine beetle and its symbiotic blue fungus infection are tangled in the...
New, green trees grow in an area recently logged as older, dead lodgepole pine that have been killed by the mountain pine beetle and its symbiotic...
Sun Mountain Logging employees and brothers Jeremy Lott and Brian Lott of Deer Lodge, Montana, operate a stroke boom delimber and a wheeled grapple...
Sun Mountain Logging employee Blaine Leischner drives a feller buncher maching as he clears a stand of lodgepole pine trees killed by the mountain...
The sun rises behind a ridge of trees September 13, 2019 near Missoula, Montana. According to the 2017 Montana Climate Assessment, the annual average...
Log grapple wheel loader moves and stacks logs at the Sun Mountain Lumber log yard September 12, 2019 in Deer Lodge, Montana. According to the 2017...
Sparks fly as a grinding wheel sharpens one of the 300 teeth on a giant band saw at the Sun Mountain Lumber saw mill September 12, 2019 in Deer...
Log grapple wheel loader unloads a stack of mountain pine beetle-killed lodgepole pine logs at the Sun Mountain Lumber log yard September 12, 2019 in...
Lone lodgepole pine stands in an area logged after an infestation of the mountain pine beetle killed most of the trees in the stand in...
No bigger than a grain of rice, a dead mountain pine beetle sits in logger Dallis Hunter's hand after he pulled it from the bark of a dead lodgepole...
Sun Mountain Lumber Superintendent Nelson Bohrer walks past stacks of cut lumber at the saw mill September 12, 2019 in Deer Lodge, Montana. According...
Sun Mountain Lumber employees work the day shift cutting, sorting and processing Douglas fir at the saw mill September 12, 2019 in Deer Lodge,...
Juice Custom Cutting employee Dylan Lewis pulls and stack boards cut from mountain pine beetle-killed trees at the outdoor saw mill September 12,...
Dallis Hunter, owner of Juice Custom Cutting, looks over a stack of mountain pine beetle-killed pine logs at his outdoor saw mill September 12, 2019...
