These fires typically kill most trees, along with the history they ... in fire activity wouldn't be uncharacteristic for the Northern Rockies subalpine ecosystems -- yet. "Connecting the dots ...

While the trees have always been susceptible to disease ... Whitebark pines, whose fatty seeds provide meals for grizzly bears in the northern Rockies, have long been protected from insect attack ...

The combination of the heavy, wet snow and strong winds downed trees blocking roads and knocked ... a full fledged blizzard hammered the northern Rockies and Northern Plains.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The first major snowstorm of the season is expected to hit the northern Cascades and Rockies and North Dakota this week, sending residents searching for their winter coats ...

"Enough cold air in the upper levels of the atmosphere is expected to bring a late-season round of heavy, accumulating snowfall to the northern Rockies ... to and weigh down trees and power ...

Their analysis ultimately revealed higher concentrations of metal contaminants from human activity in the snow of the northern Rocky Mountains than in the southern Rockies, including in Montana ...

said blister rust in particular has decimated stands in the Northern Rockies, killing off trees in Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Northwest Montana. Tomback and other ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Snow has started falling in the northern Cascades and Rockies in the first major snowstorm of the season, prompting people to search out their winter coats, gloves ...