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Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
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The Aspan gold is beautiful while the lodge pole pines are depressing.

Sharon Evans
Glen Allen, VA

RNinRVR Wrote:
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> The Aspan gold is beautiful while the lodge pole
> pines are depressing.

Thanks for your nice comment.

Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
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They are NOT lodgepole pines, they are Englemann Spruce that have succumbed to the Spruce Beetle, a beetle which specifically attacks that species of tree.  Lodgepole pines are not native to far southern Colorado and and northern New Mexico, though a few were human-planted many years ago just east of Cumbres and near Tanglefoot Curve.  Lodgepole pines are subject to attack (as are Ponderosa Pine and Douglas Fir) by the Pine Bark Beetle, an entirely different species of beetle.  Ride the C&TS Botany Train next season and you can learn all about it.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 09/24/16 18:45 by WW.

WW Wrote:
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> They are NOT lodgepole pines, they are Englemann
> Spruce that have succumbed to the Spruce Beetle,
> a beetle which specifically attacks that species
> of tree.  Lodgepole pines are not native to far
> southern Colorado and and northern New Mexico,
> though a few were human-planted many years ago
> just east of Cumbres and near Tanglefoot Curve. 
> Lodgepole pines are subject to attack (as are
> Ponderosa Pine and Douglas Fir) by the Pine Bark
> Beetle, an entirely different species of beetle. 
> Ride the C&TS Botany Train next season and you can
> learn all about it.


Thanks for the information.

Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
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