Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir seeds are disseminated about twice as far as seeds of Ponderosa pine.

In spring and winter ( in British Columbia, Idaho, and Montana ) elk browse on south-and southwest-facing Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir and Ponderosa pine stands, particularly when shrubs and / or grasses are productive.

The Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Company also operated within the Bend area processing Ponderosa pine trees.

Jeffrey pine, which resembles Ponderosa Pine, produces a resin that, when distilled, yields almost pure n-Heptane, a volatile hydrocarbon which is highly flammable: therefore it cannot be used to make turpentine.

At lower elevations, coniferous trees, mainly the Ponderosa pine, surround most of the monument, providing shade from the sun.

Found here are Ponderosa, Jeffrey, sugar, and lodgepole pine trees, as well as abundant white and red fir.

However in the Pacific Northwest it is found in coniferous forests of Douglas fir, Noble fir, sugar pine, and Ponderosa pine.

This is due to heavy browsing by elk and cattle and because of frequent grass fires of human and natural origin which kill the lower branches on the Engelmann spruce, Douglas-fir and Ponderosa pine that populate the uplands around the grasslands dominating the bottoms of the calderas.

The White Mountains also have small remnant groves of Lodgepole pine, Jeffrey pine, Ponderosa pine, Sierra juniper and Aspen including an unusual dwarf variety.

Ponderosa pine was used in proportion to its availability.

In a cleft in the sandstone of Bridge Mountain's summit, there is a small hidden forest of Ponderosa pine.

It is lighter in colour than B. edulis, having a cream-coloured cap with pink tones ; often mycorrhizal with Ponderosa pine, it tends to grow in areas where there is less rainfall.

Ponderosa pine and pinyon-juniper woodland were avoided by Mexican Spotted Owl in southern New Mexico.

Ponderosa pine was also more abundant in random stands than in nest stands in the Upper Gila Mountains and Basin and Range East recovery units.

* Ponderosa Pine, a widespread and variable pine native to western North America

The Arizona pine had been thought to be a variant of Ponderosa pine by some botanists, but is now recognized as a distinct species by most authorities.

Pinus ponderosa, commonly known as the Ponderosa Pine, Bull Pine, Blackjack Pine, or Western Yellow Pine, is a very large pine tree of variable habit native to western North America, but widespread throughout the temperate world.

Located on the eastern flank of the Cascade mountain range, forests of Douglas fir and Ponderosa pine cover Mazama and the surrounding area, which is home to one of the world's longest cross-country skiing trails, stretching for 120 miles ( 193 km ) and running through the town itself.

It can be found in several habitat types, including Pinyon-Juniper, Sagebrush, and Ponderosa pine colonies at elevations generally between 1, 500 and 2, 500 meters.

cryptopodum on Ponderosa pine.

This is similar to the argument that fire suppression in western United States has allowed Ponderosa Pine forests to become “ overstocked ”.

In one study, a detailed analysis of historical fire data concluded that fire suppression activities have failed to exclude fire from southern California chaparral, as they have in Ponderosa Pine forests.

The area includes alkali lakes, high desert scrub, and forests of Western Juniper, Ponderosa Pine, and Lodgepole Pine in the hills and mountains.

Forest fires occur in the Ponderosa forests surrounding Mount Rushmore around every 27 years.

Extensive Ponderosa Pine forests are found both on the slopes of the Rim and on the plateau north of it.

Ponderosa Pine-Gambel oak ( Q. gambelii ) and mixed-conifer forests, typically dominated by Douglas-fir and / or white fir ( Abies concolor ), are often used.

In the North American Pacific Northwest Tricholoma magnivelare is found in coniferous forests made up of one or more of the following species: Douglas-fir, Noble Fir, Shasta Red Fir, Sugar Pine, Ponderosa Pine or Lodgepole Pine.

It is found on the Black Hills and on foothills and mid-height peaks of the northern, central and southern Rocky Mountains as well as the Cascades and Sierra Nevada, and the Maritime Coast Range Ponderosa Pine forests.

They are rarely very dense, and visitors accustomed to seeing Ponderosa forests in the Sierra Nevada may come to two opposite, and fallacious, conclusions: 1 ) That the pines were logged, and all we see left is a small percentage of survivors ; or 2 ) that they were all planted.

* Ponderosa Pine forests — The elevation of ths zone ranges from approximately above sea-level.

The surrounding forests consist of Ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, Red Cedar, Poplar, Quaking Aspen, Hemlock, Paper Birch and Western Larch.

Ponderosa pine forests now face severe damage under harsher fire regimes brought on by fire suppression and aggravated by natural drought cycles.

An important factor in the increased intensity and destructive power of wildfire in the Ponderosa pine forests is the impact of cattle grazing on public land.

Historically, throughout the west of the United States, Ponderosa pine forests experienced low-temperature, rapidly moving surface fires every ten years or so, which burned the grasses and herbaceous vegetation on the savanna floor, along with seedling pines, maintaining a low stand density and an open canopy.

Some of the rarest forests that occurs in this coastal region are the Maritime Coast Range Ponderosa Pine forests, an example of which occurs in the Carbonera Creek watershed of Santa Cruz County, California.

menziesii ), Ponderosa Pine ( Pinus ponderosa ), and White Fir ( Abies concolor ) forests, Jeffrey Pine ( Pinus jeffreyi ) forests, and Lodgepole Pine ( Pinus contorta ) forests.

menziesii ), Ponderosa Pine ( Pinus ponderosa ), and White Fir ( Abies concolor )), Jeffrey Pine ( Pinus jeffreyi ) forests, Red Fir ( Abies magnifica ) forests, and Lodgepole Pine ( Pinus contorta ) forests are the most common types.

The timbers came from about twelve miles ( 19 km ) east of Ganado Village where it is high enough for Ponderosa to grow.

Englemann spruce and sub-alpine fir grow at the highest levels of the Wilderness, with western larch, Douglas fir, and Ponderosa pine found between the two extremes.

In summer, elk generally are found at higher elevations ( outside the Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir and Pacific Ponderosa Pine zones ).

The western slopes are densely covered with Douglas-fir, Western Hemlock and Red alder, while the drier eastern slopes are mostly Ponderosa Pine, with Western Larch at higher elevations.

Other forested areas ( mainly above in elevation ) are marked by stands of Ponderosa Pine, Douglas Fir, White Fir, Western Larch ( a deciduous conifer commonly called “ Tamarack ”), Lodgepole Pine, Spruce stands in some higher elevation sites and a few stands of White Pine, as well as Cottonwood trees along some rivers and streams, and Birch and Quaking Aspen groves, mainly at higher elevations.

The Ponderosa Pine Scenic Byway on State Highway 21 climbs northeast from Boise to Idaho City and Lowman, and ends at Stanley in Custer County, at the junction with

In 1991, Ponderosa Elementary School began educating students when it was constructed at Ponderosa Estates.

Ponderosa is located at ( 35. 668305 ,-106. 664462 ).

Ponderosa pines are found in canyons and at higher elevations.

He was survived by four children from his two marriages, but sadly in 1953 his son, Richard Dix, Jr., was killed in an accident at a logging camp near Ponderosa, California.

Covering the time when the Cartwrights first arrived at the Ponderosa, when Adam was a teenager and Joe a little boy, the series lasted 20 episodes and featured less gunfire and brawling than the original.

Ponderosa pines may be found at the top of the valley, where it connects to the Spring Mountains.

The most famous of these was Rainbow Lodge at Whistler, then called Alta Lake, but others were at Birken Lake, Whispering Falls, D ' Arcy, Ponderosa, McGillivray Falls, Seton Portage, the Bridge River townsite ( where there was a first-class hotel serving mining and hydro executives and their guests ), Shalalth, Retaskit and at Craig Lodge near Lillooet.

This distinguishes Whitebark Pine and relatives from the Lodgepole Pine ( Pinus contorta ), with two needles per fascicle, and Ponderosa Pine ( Pinus ponderosa ) and Jeffrey Pine ( Pinus jeffreyi ), which both have three per fascicle ; these three all also have a persistent sheath at the base of each fascicle.

The album was recorded at Tito's Ponderosa Studios in Los Angeles, California.

In 2008 they were part of The Latin Legends concert at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles and most recently were honored as a legendary garage rock band co-headlining with The Trashmen from Minneapolis, Minnesota known for their hit song " Surfin ' Bird " at the 9th Annual Ponderosa Stomp in 2010 at the House of Blues in New Orleans.

On other soils, it only becomes dominant at higher altitudes where the usually faster-growing Ponderosa Pine does not thrive.

The Jeffrey Pine may be distinguished from the closely related Ponderosa Pine by the needles ( image at left ), which are glaucous, less bright green than those of Ponderosa Pine, and by the stouter, heavier cones with larger seeds and inward-pointing barbs ( see image lower left ).

In the final season of the television western Bonanza in 1972-1973, Matheson played Griff King, a parolee who tries to reform his life as a worker at the Ponderosa Ranch under Ben Cartwright's watch.