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Fires, 2005: Valley Road Fires, 2006: Trailhead Fires, 2006: Other Areas Fires, 2007: Basin Creek Fires, 2007: Monumental SNRA Red Trees: Click for Photo Gallery of SNRA "Red Trees" SNRA Red Trees: Why Are the Trees Dying?
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Red Tree Fuels Reduction Project
FREE firewood!
Firewood fees are being waived on portions of the Sawtooth National
Recreation Area in order to encourage wood cutters to remove trees killed
by a massive mountain pine beetle infestation.
Up to 10 cords can be cut without charge north of Galena Summit. For more
information contact the SNRA office 727-5000, north of Ketchum, or the
Stanley Ranger Station 774-3000. A permit is still required although there
is no charge.
A Mountain Pine
Beetle infestation has killed many lodgepole pines on the SNRA, giving a
“red tree” appearance to the Sawtooth Valley, Stanley Basin and Salmon
River canyon below Stanley.
READ MORE...->Mountain Pine Beetle in the Intermountain West
This brochure by the
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Region.
Whitebark Pine
Another pine that inhabits Idaho's higher mountains is the whitebark pine. These trees can be seen from Highway 75 on Galena Summit. In the past year, the mountain pine beetle has also attacked whitebark pines.
Learn more about whitebark pines at: www.whitebarkfound.org. This organization has published brochures. The Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation is located in Missoula MT. The brochure tells of the relationship between whitebark pine cones and grizzly bears, squirrels and Clark’s Nutcrackers. The high fat nuts nourish the bears, and both squirrels and nutcrackers eat and help spread the seeds for more whitebarks to grow.
Forests news, photos and updates are posted as they become available.
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