Posted by David Sherman on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 3:39PM :
In Reply to: Re: Baptized my M37 today! posted by Ken Dunnington on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 12:20PM :
also known as tamaracks. They lose their needles in the winter. They fool a lot of tourists into thinking the forest is dying. The grouse eat the larch needles over the winter when everything else is under the snow. There are pines dying around my place but they're either lodgepoles that have simply gotten too old (50 years is old for a lodgepole) or ponderosa/yellow pines that were planted by the forest service after the big fires, but are at too high an altitude to do well. White pines keep trying but the blister rust usually gets them before they get very big. Most of the forest is red fir, doug fir, grand fir, white pine, red cedar, with a little mountain hemlock and yew. None of them has any real trouble from bugs.
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