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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

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

News & Articles

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• 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