Deer Ridge, Rocky Mountain National Park (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Deer Ridge, Rocky Mountain National Park

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Increasing tree die-offs in the West are illustrated by these gray, needleless limber pine, the likely victims of drought, interspersed with orange, dead limber and ponderosa pine killed by Rocky Mountain pine beetles in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park in recent years.

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Image courtesy Jeremy Smith, University of Colorado

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