Late October and early November mark the golden age of Northwest Montana's landscape, when the western and alpine larch turn yellow and drop their needles for the winter. Larch live in the Northwest ...

It’s the perfect time to pay a visit to the Metolius Preserve. When I visited the Larch Trails last weekend, the Western larch trees were a shocking vibrant hue of yellow. During points of the ...

Stephen F. Arno of Missoula has self-published through Amazon a book on the ecology and history of the Northwestern larch titled “Golden Trees of the Mountain West.” According to the book’s cover, ...

Apr. 15—Atop unusual losses this year of Western larch, pine beetles are drawing down Ponderosa stands in a swath of forest lying north of the Kootenai River. During a recent update to the Lincoln ...

If you were south of Coeur d’Alene, where Paul Zambino lives, last week, you probably wouldn’t even know the larch were there. Not yet, anyway. The needles of the larch – or tamarack, as this kind of ...

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ARLTON RIDGE - Standing under a canopy of trees loaded with bright yellow needles framed against a deep blue sky, Steve Arno reaches over with his walking stick and knocks the snow off a 2-foot-tall ...