How To Use Ponderosa In A Sentence
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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
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I guess these aren’t trendy enough or an easy slap at someone (did anyone find it ironic that one year [the annual contest] C’ville said that the place for peoplewatching was at Golden Corral and in the article slammed every person in there for being an obese porker from a surrounding county and THIS year, the place to take your folks in C’ville Annual Contest was Ponderosa?
The Dec. on C-Ville and The Hook at cvillenews.com
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In fact, the Forest Service created Smokey Bear to protect forests, water supply and merchantable trees like ponderosa pine.
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In ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, and Sitka spruce, dimpling sometimes occurs as numerous small, conical indentations of the plane of the growth ring.
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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)
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Outside Bend, residents and tourists fish, hike, bicycle, mountain climb, ride snow-machines, and ski in beautiful forests of Ponderosa pine.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, it pongs to high heaven and it's now outside The Ponderosa.
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As the buckboard bounced on its way to the Ponderosa, Hoss and Joe rode close to the buckboard so all four of the Cartwrights could talk.
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The Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, and sugar pine planted in this area will help regenerate an ecosystem inhabited by wildlife, including bald eagles.
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Today, Just My Imagination was the chosen tune and as the Temptations latest opus revolved on its never-ending loop, it echoed round our flat and wormed into my subconscious causing me to pick at my chips and barely register what mishaps were befalling Hoss and Little Joe on the Ponderosa ranch.
Family life
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Lands Council development director Amanda Swan calls ponderosa pines Spokane's environmental mascot.
The Seattle Times
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The result of investigation indicated that Pinus ponderosa has been introduced successfully with a promising features alien conifer. Its introduction could be extended in large.
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The eagles tend to roost in huge ponderosas in northeast-facing canyons among the hills that dot Wyoming's mile-high prairies.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Joe was reluctant to rely on the drug, refusing it even when Ben and Hoss moved him to a buckboard for transportation back to the Ponderosa.
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The eagles tend to roost in huge ponderosas in northeast-facing canyons among the hills that dot Wyoming's mile-high prairies.
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Cheatgrass, sagebrush, manzanita, and ponderosa pine are all part of the volatile ground fuels mix that surrounds the fast-growing city.
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Indeed, the majority of acreage of forest types burned annually tend to be characterized by moderate to severe fire, and are not the forest types where fuel build up is presumed to be a major problem-namely ponderosa pine forest type.
CounterPunch
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Or maybe, because the meandering river had undercut the bank below their old ponderosa, Duke and Doreen sensed that the tree was no longer safe.
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But he was unhappy about planting only Douglas-fir or ponderosa pine on a site, replacing the natural mixed species with a monoculture.
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The first home I made west of Lake Michigan was in central Arizona, tucked between low hills and covered in Ponderosa pine and sagebrush.
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The distribution of tree species will change, and fire-resistant ponderosas will likely survive where Douglas firs and white pines may not.
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Potential natural vegetation includes ponderosa pine woodlands with an understory of little bluestem, blue grama, buffalo grass, and leadplant.
Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
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Eventually, dwarf mistletoe plants steal enough water, minerals, and nutrients to kill the ponderosa and lodgepole pines, Douglas-firs, western larches, and western hemlocks they attack.
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Bowles also wanted to maximise the maritime views and nestle the house amid the site's tall ponderosa pines.
Times, Sunday Times
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In California, 94,000 Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, and sugar pine will be planted an 350 acres of Tahoe National Forest near Nevada City.
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We hike down a surprisingly gentle trail, passing through stunted pinons to a Ponderosa coppice and a fetchingly derelict bridge at river's edge.
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Cheatgrass, sagebrush, manzanita, and ponderosa pine are all part of the volatile ground fuels mix that surrounds the fast-growing city.
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Frank McCay watched as Joe Cartwright wheeled his pinto around and headed for the Ponderosa.
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The stony soil below was covered by dense forests of live oak, Douglas fir, aspen, maple, ponderosa pine, madrone, Arizona cypress, and juniper.
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It dangled from the end of a rope fastened ridiculously high in a giant ponderosa.
Kings of Colorado
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Whether cutting cattle or breaking horses, Adam was undoubtedly the best on the Ponderosa.
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At first all we saw were woods dominated by ponderosa and sugar pines.
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Mountain Chickadees are typically found in dry coniferous forests, especially Ponderosa and lodgepole pines.
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She has found that air pollution has significantly weakened conifers such as ponderosa pines and Jeffrey pines, making them more susceptible to drought and bark-beetle attacks, and less resistant to fire (see the abstract "Air Pollution Increases Forest Susceptibility to Wildfires: A Case Study in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California" by Grulke, Minnich et al).
Chris McGowan: A Clockwork Apocalypse: The Southern California Wildfire
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The ponderosa is, in fact, almost as good an indicator as the commonly accepted standard.
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The lava substrate has the ability in places to trap and retain moisture, allowing for a more mesophytic vegetation, such as stunted Douglas-fir and ponderosa pine, to occur in some areas.
Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)
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Approximately one-third of the tract is timbered with ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, and Douglas fir; the rest is Camas prairie.
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The stony soil below was covered by dense forests of live oak, Douglas fir, aspen, maple, ponderosa pine, madrone, Arizona cypress, and juniper.
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Examples of acidic varieties include ‘Improved Meyer’ and ‘Ponderosa’ lemons, calamondins, and kumquats.
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Both members of the pair excavate a hole in a decayed tree, typically a cottonwood or Ponderosa pine.
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Vegetation is wild oat, cheatgrass, flatspine stickweed, California buckthorn, whiteleaf manzanita, honeysuckle, brackenfern, hedgehog dogstail, chaparral coffeeberry, toyon, Pacific poison oak, interior and canyon live oak, Pacific madrone, and scattered ponderosa pine, foothill pine, incense cedar and California black oak.
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Approximately one-third of the tract is timbered with ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, and Douglas fir; the rest is Camas prairie.
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The skyline is dotted with mountain ranges on whose slopes are dense forests of aspen, fir, spruce and ponderosas.
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Among them were species like ponderosa and lodgepole pine, trees that proved so commercially valuable they contributed significantly to the building of the country.
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In Washington, they use three main types of habitat: forested riversides with large cottonwoods and other hardwoods, Ponderosa pine forests, especially at the lower edge of the tree line, and Garry oak stands.
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The predominant forest cover is ponderosa pine with a shrub or bunchgrass understory.
Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
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In Washington, they are generally found in mature Ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, or mixed coniferous forests with a thick understory.
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He predicts 30 to 40 percent of the ponderosas and 80 percent of the piñons will fall victim to insects by next summer.
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One of the first field experiments to detect adaptive population structure was conducted with Nuculaspis californica, a highly sessile homopteran scale insect that displayed local adaptation to individual ponderosa pine trees.
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The three worked closely together to ensure that the new landscape would harmonize with a surrounding woodland of aspens, Douglas firs, ponderosa pines, and river birches.
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Eventually, dwarf mistletoe plants steal enough water, minerals, and nutrients to kill the ponderosa and lodgepole pines, Douglas-firs, western larches, and western hemlocks they attack.
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Two hours later Mitch Campbell rode at an easy canter up to the Ponderosa ranch house.
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The lemon trees we have are hybrids known as "ponderosa lemons" and they are huge and quite good but, as I understand it, not really lemons in the true sense of the word.
Nurseries in Joco?
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The blaze has burned 486 square miles of ponderosa pine forest, driven by wind gusts of more than 60 mph since it was sparked on May 29 by what authorities believe was an unattended campfire.
Thousands ordered out of Ariz. town as fire nears
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The valley's boggy areas, seeps, and ponderosa-pine forests are home to more than 500 kinds of plants.
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The ponderosa is, in fact, almost as good an indicator as the commonly accepted standard.
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After dinner, walk outside, take a deep breath of the pine-scented air, and enjoy the moonlight on ponderosa trunks that peek through a layer of fresh powder snow, and the inky mountains in the distance.
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There were hardwoods and ponderosas, as well as a dozen varieties of cactus, but no grasses or wildflowers.
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But ponderosas aren't the only trees in the western woods, and different forests require different solutions.
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The east side is dry ponderosa and lodgepole pine country.
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The majestic ponderosa pine occupies the transition zone between mountain valleys and the cooler, damper spruce/fir zone.
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The air is scented with ponderosa and lodgepole pine and cedar.
Times, Sunday Times
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He listened to Hop Sing telling him about the events between Judd and Davy, about the stagecoach coming into town and Hoss returning home with the news that plague had broken out on the Ponderosa.
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But ponderosas aren't the only trees in the western woods, and different forests require different solutions.
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The Black Hills are the eastern limit of the Ponderosa pine forests and about the only place you can find pristine patches of montane grasslands.
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That's where ponderosa pine and western larch grow and where more people live.
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Instead of ponderosa pines, the dominant plants were cycads, which resemble tree ferns.
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The ponderosas gave off a heavy scent of vanilla.
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A single seed was used for species with larger seeds (western white pine, ponderosa pine, loblolly pine, and Pacific silver fir).
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Snow weighs heavily along the branches of ponderosa pines and buries a yucca to the tips of its spears.
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A while back, the American chain Ponderosa made headlines for daring to pass horse meat off to unsuspecting customers as steak.
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The air is scented with ponderosa and lodgepole pine and cedar.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite accumulating a fortune he never moved away from the streets of his youth, choosing instead to add extension after extension to his fortress of a house, the Ponderosa, in Provanmill Road.
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The northern Idaho ground squirrel lives in dry, rocky meadows surrounded by forests of ponderosa pine or Douglas fir.
