Nate, you bring a lot of interesting soup to the table. It's a real education and a delicacy. Amazing.

Thanks so much,

Dax

Stunning, as ever!

What are the piles of cut branches in pics 1 & 2 for? Are they for starting the prescribed burn signposted in pic 3?

Is the colour in all the pics as it is, or do they have a bit of a red cast to them compared with reality?

Resin

super..

i am envious.. sitting here in the flatness of SE MI ...

but i wonder if i were there.. if i would ever turn off the puter.. and actually take a drive into the mountains ...

i am glad to see them being proactive in reducing the underbrush .... fire prevention ...

thanks

ken

Those trunks you captured are surreal. Thanks sluice.

tj

No one's in a hurry, it seems! T.

Very nice. Keep up the good photography.

Jason

Magnificent!

Resin, the brush piles are either burned or left for wildlife habitat depending on the burn prescription, as I understand.
The pics should be accurate. 'Colorado' is Spanish for the color red. ;)

Beautiful pics, Sluice! Thank you!

Josh

Get one large rock...(a couple of tons will do), insert seed in crack and wait....
Man, what are the chances of such a thing happening???
That pine is going to have a hard time before it'll be like it's big brothers! T.

The "strip-barking" on the aristata is just plain old damage, probably from scraping of a falling tree. But the old limbers show real strip-barking, due to the death of erosion-exposed roots leading to death by dessication of the trunk sectors watered by those roots.
Great pics.

T, isn't that seedling something. My guess is it will survive what, maybe 10, 20, 30 years? The wind knocks it off the rock, and a few decades later another random seed starts the process again. Maybe that story continues to repeat itself time and time again over the centuries.

pinetree, is it possible the yellow highlighted trunk section is stripbarking, as compared to the pink branch sections?
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here's the tree from another angle
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Thanks for explaining the cause of stripbarking, which is helpful and much appreciated!

That looped stem has dead branches sticking out as though they were present when the tree was knocked and held down, so there is plenty of physical damage. The upper end of that pink area looks like branches broke out of it. But sure, could be a combination of things going on.