Teton Red

Teton National Park, redkill, snake river and Grand Teton. These are lodgepole pine. Somewhere near 100,000 million acres of lodgepole pine have been killed across North America by the native mountain pine bark beetle. This area includes most of the large stands of lodgepole in North America. The attack started about the turn of the century and is down to a million or two acres of new attack per year now because the beetles have killed most of their primary prey, approximately 20 percent of the forests in western North America were lodgepole pine.