lodgepole pine

Our first assignment wasn’t a wildfire but a cleanup project at Devils Postpile National Monument in the eastern Sierra Nevada, where a historic windstorm had been severe enough to uproot a distressing number of mature lodgepole pines.

Lodgepole pine has been shown to have a great value for telephone and telegraph poles when treated with preservatives.

It was a lodgepole pine sixty or seventy feet away and several feet lower than my stand, on the side of a moraine.

The meadow, bordered by red and white fir and Jeffrey and lodgepole pine, offers an attractive but cold campsite.

The trail now leads almost level through lodgepole pine and fir forests, emerging suddenly at the foot of Long Meadow.

We turn left, passing thru a beautiful forest of Jeffrey pine, lodgepole pine and fir.