Tree ID Idaho

[WhiteMike]

I’m up in the Idaho panhandle and looking at a property that appears to have been logged in the past and I’m assuming this is all reprod. The trees all look like they’re sick or dying and I’m wondering if that’s just how they look naturally. Towards the tops of the trees have needles and the bottom is just spindly dead looking branches. The timber all over this entire area looks like that (several square miles of it). The trees are all extremely close to each other. I always referred to them as lodgepole pines but I’m wondering if that’s accurate and if these trees are still healthy or not

 

[rockshox11]

Those look like lodgepole to me, some trees self prune like that as they get taller or lower limbs die as they lose access to sunlight. Fairly normal- as far as health of individual trees in a stand like, its hard saying without taking a closer look at individuals but probably not worth it for a bunch of scragly lodgepole regen. The tree with top kill has something wrong with it for sure. You can expect tightly packed trees like that to have generally poor health.

 

[LLE]

I am quite sure these are not lodgepole. Bark doesn't look right and way too many limbs down low. I cut a lot of lodgepole here in the Bitterroot above 5000 feet. They look like a low quality pine growing here below 5000 feet locally called bull pine.