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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 ...

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.