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• n  shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares

• shore pine
• lodgepole
• spruce pine
• Pinus contorta

News & Articles

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• Fire Proves an Agent of Change for Western Landscapes
  FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- State Highway 14 cuts a tightly winding channel through the canyons of the Cache la Poudre Wilderness, a section of national forest in this state's northwest corner and the site of last year's High Park fire. Each hairpin turn opens onto a different landscape: around one, a hillside flush with lodgepole pine; around the next, a blackened slope where bare trunks stand out ...
  July 11, 2013 - Scientific American