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Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir is a large tree, typically reaching 35 – 45 m in height and 1 m in diameter, with exceptional specimens known to 67 m tall, and 2 m diameter.
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Rocky and Douglas-fir
Further inland, coast Douglas-fir is replaced by another variety, Rocky Mountain or interior Douglas-fir ( P. menziesii var.
Unlike the Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir, Coast Douglas-fir foliage has a noticeable sweet fruity-resinous scent, particularly if crushed.
Adapted to a moist, mild climate, it grows larger and faster than Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir.
glauca, or Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir, is an evergreen conifer native to the interior mountainous regions of western North America, from central British Columbia and southwest Alberta in Canada southward through the United States to the far north of Mexico.
Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir is most commonly treated as a variety ( Pseudotsuga menziesii var.
Some botanists have further split Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir into two varieties, but these are not widely acknowledged and have only limited support from genetic testing.
Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir conesLeft: Shuswap Lake, British Columbia, CanadaRight: Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, U. S.
Both coast Douglas-fir and Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir produce abundant crops of seed approximately every 2 – 11 years.
Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir grows more slowly than coast Douglas-fir and is also much more cold tolerant.
Tolerance of different environmental conditions varies among populations of Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir, especially among populations from the northern and southern Rockies.
Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir reaches reproductive maturity at 12 – 15 years.
Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir seeds are disseminated about twice as far as seeds of Ponderosa pine.
The oldest accurately-dated Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir, 1275 years old, is in New Mexico.
Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir and Ponderosa Pine, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir grows on a variety of sites across its wide geographic range.
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.
In summer, elk generally are found at higher elevations ( outside the Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir and Pacific Ponderosa Pine zones ).
In parts of Yellowstone National Park, elk browsing is so intensive that young Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir are stunted at 1 – 1. 5 m ( 3 – 4. 5 feet ) in height, with live branches trailing very close to the ground, and branches on the upper two thirds of the tree dead.
Low-elevation and south-facing open-structure Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir types are often important winter range for white-tailed deer and mule deer.
Moose winter in low-elevation Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir types in areas where willow thickets, the preferred winter habitat, are lacking ; in such areas Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir is an important moose food.
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