ponderosa

That being said, the Ponderosa is fire-resistant, and will survive typical non-crowning fires.

For example, when she describes the more controlled greenhouse experiment with Douglas firs and Ponderosa pines, an injured mother tree Douglas fir dumped carbon into the network and the ponderosa pines still absorbed it.

That means the overstory trees there are large ponderosa pines (which has high water requirements for the area, so they flood irrigate the park during the summer).

Go take a shit in the woods and wipe with a ponderosa pine cone.

I think you can get pine nuts from the cones of ponderosa pines, which might be why they're included.

I can see what the Ponderosa Pine on my own property are doing in response to stress.

These beams, often whole trunks of ponderosa pine, had to be brought in from considerable distances, mostly from the Chuska Mountains and Mount Taylor.

We have a big ponderosa pine on our property and sometimes the stellar jays go wild when there is a bird of prey up there.

But PJ high desert areas don’t have the same level of destructive wildfires as, say, the Ponderosa pines found at higher elevations or cottonwood bosques.

Mostly Pacific ponderosa pines that stood since before Washington crossed the Potomac, each with 10k's of holes bored by woodpeckers getting at the damn beetles.

Plus some species require forest fires, like ponderosa pine whose pine cones will only open to release their seeds from the heat of a forest fire.

Also, lodge pole pine is becoming more dominant in the PNW, and we're losing more fire resistant (and dependent) trees like ponderosa.

Ponderosa Pines have thick bark for the purpose of surviving fires -- now the fires are too hot.

Ponderosa pines and other tree species (Colorado Blue Spruce, etc) are known world-wide in the bonsai community for their extreme hardiness.

Examples include Ponderosa, Jeffery, and Lodgepole Pine and Douglas fir landscapes in California and Arizona.