When the tree reaches 110 to 120 years old (a mere teenager for a Ponderosa pine), it begins to shed its black bark and reveal an inner bark of yellow. That's why locals call them "Yellowbellies." ...

High on Flagstaff Mountain, a ponderosa pine had quietly succumbed during the summer of 2020, but its green needles lingered another year to blanch in the fall of 2021. The tree was now conspicuous, ...

The ponderosa pine had taken root decades before the Revolutionary War, making a stately stand on this western Sierra Nevada slope for some 300 years, Nate Stephenson figures.

The only taller one had been a 269.2-foot-tall sugar pine, but it died from a bark beetle attack in California's Yosemite National Park. Sugar pines are known as the "king of the pines" and ...

These dwarf conifers are perfect for filling a small space. The Difference Between Pines and Conifers Here’s one of our favorite fun facts about conifers. All pine trees are conifers,but not all ...

High on Flagstaff Mountain, a ponderosa pine had quietly succumbed during the summer of 2020, but its green needles lingered another year to blanch in the fall of 2021. The tree was now ...

An environmental enigma in Keystone at least a decade in the making was finally cracked this past week, and the unpredictable event could have ramifications for generations to come. The ponderosa ...

Ponderosa pine cone crops worth picking only occur every 10 years or so and JBLM Forestry staff monitors the trees for viable crops, and this year produced a crop worth picking.

It doesn’t take much to realize that Flagstaff embraces its love of the ponderosa pine tree. There are a number of festivals that end with the phrase “in the Pines,” ...

A 130-year-old ponderosa pine tree in Browne’s Addition became the latest casualty of last week’s flood, after a weekend of rain and winds destabilized the root system and it crashed into the ...

The ponderosa pine is now Spokane’s official tree. The designation came Monday night from the City Council just in time for Earth Day, which was celebrated Tuesday across Spokane by school kids ...