The mountain pine beetle (MPB), and the blue-stain fungus is another excellent ... and is about the size of a grain of rice. They inhabit lodgepole, Scotch, ponderosa and limber pine trees.

Blue stain can occur quickly ... Avoid drying under 9 percent MC at all costs, as drier wood machines poorly. Stability. Lodgepole pine is a little more stable than many common species, requiring ...

But while a lodgepole ... blue tint in the grain. But the dead trees can only stand so long before the wood loses strength. To complicate things further, the resin of lodgepole pine is flammable.

It’s native to western pine forests, especially lodgepole and ponderosa ... you’d see a lovely blue stain seeping through the yellow wood. It’s a telltale sign of a tree that was killed ...

if pine beetles indeed gobble up lodgepole pine, little if any measurable damage would immediately befall the Oregon lumber industry. That’s because lumber could still be salvaged quickly. If not, a ...