NOUN
- common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature
How To Use ponderosa pine In A Sentence
- Fire suppression has transformed open stands of old-growth species such as ponderosa pine to dense stands with understories of small-diameter conifers. Beyond Old Growth~ Chapter 5
- In fact, the Forest Service created Smokey Bear to protect forests, water supply and merchantable trees like ponderosa pine.
- In ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, and Sitka spruce, dimpling sometimes occurs as numerous small, conical indentations of the plane of the growth ring.
- Below the Douglas-fir belt, ponderosa pine is dominant to the west of the continental divide, constituting a xerophytic forest. Middle Rocky Mountain Steppe - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)
- Outside Bend, residents and tourists fish, hike, bicycle, mountain climb, ride snow-machines, and ski in beautiful forests of Ponderosa pine.
- The Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, and sugar pine planted in this area will help regenerate an ecosystem inhabited by wildlife, including bald eagles.
- Lands Council development director Amanda Swan calls ponderosa pines Spokane's environmental mascot. The Seattle Times
- When a ponderosa pine on the hillside drops its needles every fall, Keskimaki leaves them in place as a winter mulch to protect plants from extreme cold, then removes them in the spring.
- When we're talking about disastrous forest fires in the West, usually we're talking about low-lying, dry forests of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir.
- Today Douglas-fir and ponderosa pine are common, along with lodgepole pine and some aspen parkland with a sagebrush and forb understory. Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
