“More work has been done to preserve sugar pine and find resistant trees, because it’s a commercial species (used for lumber),” Mircheva said. “But the higher elevation species—so whitebark, limber, ...

There was a huge carrot dangling in front of Trent Virden and the rest of the field at last week’s Nevada State Amateur, one that made the Reno golfer head south for the week. Virden, by virtue of ...