I'll add my $0.02. We live just W of Horsetooth Reservoir, in ponderosa
pines. The big snowstorm that hit us exactly one year ago destroyed
virtually all the male (pollen) cones just as they were maturing and
getting ready to release their pollen, and I suspect that lack of
successful pollina
I'll second what Dave said.
I talked to folks and/or visited places in WY, CO, UT, and MT last fall and
couldn't find any good cone crops -- there really seems to have been a
massive failure of cone crops across much of the west. I've been amazed at
the extent to which type 2 and 4 have disper
Leon et al,
Cody Porter, crossbill student at U of WY, reported to me last fall he had
observed a general failure of essentially all conifer cone crops in the
mountains of WY last year. I suspect a similar thing happened in CO since such
large phenomena across tree species tend to be regional.
