Pine trees make a wonderful natural landscape. If you have ever visited Wrightwood in the San Gabriel Mountains, you might be inspired upon returning home to tear out everything and plant nothing ...

FILE – This July 20, 2007 photo shows a hillside stand of lodge pole pine trees, fronted by aspens inside the gate of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo., that has been killed by Pine Beetles.

Whitebark pine stand. Photo by: Richard Sniezko/U.S. Forest Service. In the western U.S., few trees generally grow in higher altitudes than the whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis). Providing shelter ...