Gore Range
As seen from the trail ridge road in Rocky Mountain National Park. I'm not sure which peak this is above the grey forest of all the trees killed by borer beetles.
In Colorado, mountain pine beetle-caused mortality impacted nearly 3.4 million acres compared to 1.78 million acres impacted by spruce beetle statewide over the last 20 years.
More info: csfs.colostate.edu/forest-management/common-forest-insect...
The range was named for Lord St. George Gore, an Irish baronet who visited the area in the 1850s on a notorious hunting expedition throughout the American West.
Gore's three-year stopover in the American West had him traversing what is today the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. The figures are difficult to substantiate, but Gore himself claimed to have killed more than 2,000 buffalo, 1,600 elk and deer and 100 bears for mere sport. The carcasses were left to rot.
Source and more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Range
Gore Range
As seen from the trail ridge road in Rocky Mountain National Park. I'm not sure which peak this is above the grey forest of all the trees killed by borer beetles.
In Colorado, mountain pine beetle-caused mortality impacted nearly 3.4 million acres compared to 1.78 million acres impacted by spruce beetle statewide over the last 20 years.
More info: csfs.colostate.edu/forest-management/common-forest-insect...
The range was named for Lord St. George Gore, an Irish baronet who visited the area in the 1850s on a notorious hunting expedition throughout the American West.
Gore's three-year stopover in the American West had him traversing what is today the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. The figures are difficult to substantiate, but Gore himself claimed to have killed more than 2,000 buffalo, 1,600 elk and deer and 100 bears for mere sport. The carcasses were left to rot.
Source and more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Range