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• n  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

• This is the way the ponderosa pine forests of the American Southwest used to look, says Covington, director of the Ecological Restoration Institute at Northern Arizona University .
• In the ponderosa pine forests of Colorado's Front Range, however, big burns were spaced farther apart, allowing flammable material to accumulate.
• For centuries fires swept through the ponderosa pine forests of Arizona and New Mexico on average once or twice a decade, killing off saplings but not larger trees.

• ponderosa pine
• western yellow pine
• bull pine
• Pinus ponderosa

News & Articles

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• Prep blog: Penguins' volleyball standout uses football skills to teach kids
  Here's a nice read from David Albee about former Ponderosa volleyball standout Samantha Rains using her previous youth tackle football experience as an offensive lineman and linebacker to teach children about the game at the San Rafael college's summer sports camps.
  June 15, 2013 - The Sacramento Bee
• Roots of Black Forest community undaunted by ravaging fire
  Black Forest was timberland when Colorado Springs founder Gen. William Jackson Palmer bought 43,000 acres in 1870. It was the primary source of wood - a blanket of ponderosa pines - that helped build early Denver and Colorado Springs. Overcutting was clear by 1935, but the industry slowed. Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette
  June 13, 2013 - Colorado Springs Gazette
• Hwy. 28 to be off-limits 3 nights
  Highway 28 between Ponderosa Ranch Road in Incline Village and Highway 50 at Spooner Summit will be closed June 18-20 from 9pm to 5am. This is so a contractor working for the Nevada Department of Transportation can put down a flush seal to preserve the [...]
  June 12, 2013 - Lake Tahoe News

Quotes

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• Jon Pareles in JamBase
  The New York Times' Jon Pareles wrote, "The Ponderosa Stomp plunges into the obscure byways of rock 'n' roll past...... regional hits and eclectic combinations:a dream!"
• John Beilein in Grand Island Record
  You earn those wins,Beilein told the Associated Press, "when you drive the vans, eat at Ponderosa and play against opponents - and their referees."