Sink your nose into the yellow bark of a Ponderosa and take a big whiff: It may smell more like a dessert topping than a desert pine. As a group of hikers in Arizona recently learned, there are ...

Factors associated with seed cone production in Pinus ponderosa were reviewed to identify broad patterns and potential effectiveness of restoration activities. Cone and seed production are quite ...

Hard pines typically have two to three needles per bundle. Examples of hard pines include loblolly, pitch, shortleaf, red pine, longleaf and ponderosa pine.

Western pine beetles, Dendroctonus brevicomis, are specialists on ponderosa pine, meaning that they cannot breed without their host tree. So when ponderosa pines migrate, the beetles necessary follow.

Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Apr., 2001), pp. 261-268 (8 pages) Changes in disturbance due to fire regime in southwestern Pinus ponderosa forests over the last century have led to ...

The Washoe pine can be confused with the Jeffrey and ponderosa pines, since the Washoe pine is a variety of the ponderosa. We learned to look for pines with 3 needles in a bunch and whose bark had ...

On the 21 st of April 2014, the City Council for the City of Spokane adopted Resolution No. 2014-0039, which formally declared the Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa) the City’s official tree.

The famous ponderosa pine was measured at 168 feet tall with a circumference of 29 feet. It has been a tourist draw for many years and is easily accessible.