The valleys on the east bear Engelmann spruce, alpine fir, lodgepole pine, Douglas fir, and limber pine.
There are also younger stands of larch and lodgepole pine.
The short, heavily limbed trunk bears no resemblance to the tall and slender shaft of the lodgepole pine of the Rocky Mountains.
In upper Icehouse Canyon and near Telegraph Peak these chipmunks were associated with lodgepole pines and chinquapin, and one mile east of Mt.
Eutamias speciosus speciosus= (Merriam) Lodgepole Chipmunk This chipmunk was characteristic of the most boreal parts of the San Gabriel Mountains.
The treelets found that their day had come, and seizing upon these rich but shallow soil beds, soon covered them with thickets of spindling lodgepole pines and deciduous brush.
Here you see lodgepole pine (Pinus murrayana), that wonderful restorer of waste places which sends forth countless tiny seedlings to cover fire-swept areas and lava fields with forerunners of a forest.
The lodgepolepine thicket above shows struggle of forest to gain a foothold on the rich soil slowly forming over new volcanic rock.
Should include the Sherman Tree, Lodgepole Camp, Moro Rock, Parker Group, Crescent Meadow, and Tharp Cabin Log in the Giant Forest district.
The Park Service conducts similar programs at Sunset and Lodgepole Camps every evening.
Lodgepole Campgrounds and Tokopah Valley are 4 1/2 miles by road from Giant Forest.
The largest pool is located in the upper Lodgepole district.
But in the midmorning Joe Pollard came to him and grunted at the swath Terry had driven into the heart of the lodgepole pines.
This wound at sharp and ever-changing angles into the hills, and presently they were pressing through a dense growth of lodgepole pine.
Scattering lodgepole pine began in the hills, and thickened into dense yellow-green thickets on the upper mountain slopes.
Like paper birch and lodgepole pine, it follows forest fires where the ground is laid bare by the burning.
Cattle spread the mesquite; the lodgepolepine came up in fire-burned tracts; loblolly pine spread into abandoned fields; and paper birch profited by fires which destroyed large tracts of timber.
The lodgepole pine has been called a fire tree, and the name is not inappropriate.
The best areas for larch are those so thoroughly burned as to preclude the immediate heavy reproduction of lodgepole pine.
That can be said of few other species; but probably holds true of lodgepole pine in the West, loblolly pine in the Southeast, and mesquite in the Southwest.
In one respect, lodgepole pine is to the western mountains what loblolly pine is to the flat country of the south Atlantic and other southern states.
Lodgepole pine has been a tie material since the first railroads entered the region, and while by no means the best, it promises to fill a much more important place in the future than in the past.
However, the land on which the lodgepole grows is fit only for timber, and the acreage is so vast that there is enough to grow supplies, even with the wait of a century or two for harvest.
A savage wind sprang up with the sun, shrieking along the exposed ridges and rippling the valleys of lodgepole pine, hurling its force against the spruce slopes.
In the low country the drifts lay only in the gulches and the more sheltered spots but up in the lodgepole valleys and the heavy stands of spruce on the slopes the white covering seemed endless and unbroken.
The important lumber trees of the Rocky Mountain forest are the western yellow pine, the lodgepole pine, the Douglas fir and the Engelmann spruce.
Lodgepole pine has been shown to have a great value for telephone and telegraph poles when treated with preservatives.
A local settler delivering a load of Lodgepole pine cones at the seed extractory, for which he receives 45 cents per bushel.
Scattered breeding records in Oregon, Wyoming, and Idaho are primarily in subalpine lodgepole pine, and in Alaska (Erskine 1971) Engelmann spruce and cottonwood stands are used for nesting.
In strictly lodgepole territory, however, it may be the only promise of a new forest.
Lodgepole pine has the same habit, often supplanting yellow pine after fire or logging.
In some lodgepole stands, especially where only certain sizes are marketable, the cutting practically amounts to thinning.
Where yellow pine will grow, the problem is most likely to be to discourage lodgepole competition.
The nests I have found have all been beautifully made structures, securely fastened to small, low hanging branches of lodgepole pine, and placed about 10 to 12 feet from the ground.
The following eleven miles is a delightful succession of mountain meadows and forests of red fir, lodgepole pine and other sub-alpine species.
At the ridge top is a forest of lodgepole pine and a sudden transition to pure fir as we cross to the northwestern slope where the climate is more severe.
We turn left, passing thru a beautiful forest of Jeffrey pine, lodgepole pine and fir.
Here we continue straight ahead up the west bank of Yosemite Creek, passing beneath a beautiful forest of Jeffrey pine, white and red fir, lodgepole pine and scattered western white pine.
Bearing southward we cross a small stream and traverse a rather flat lodgepole pine forest, finally fording ~Bridalveil Creek~.
The meadow, bordered by red and white fir and Jeffrey and lodgepole pine, offers an attractive but cold campsite.
This trail bears south, crossing a small tributary to ~Bridalveil Creek~, then continues through the open lodgepole pine forest and crosses the main stream about two miles from the road.
Following eastward along ~Profile Cliff~, our trail again enters the fir and lodgepole pine forest and leads across the gently sloping plateau about one mile to the ~Glacier Point Road~.
From here the trail traverses almost level meadows and a scattered forest of lodgepolepine one mile to ~Lake Tenaya~ (Alt.
Continuing around the west flank of Cathedral Peak the trail gradually bears northeast, descending into denser forests of lodgepole pine, fir and hemlock.
After passing thru a forest of Jeffrey pine, lodgepole pine and fir for about one mile the trail to North Dome and Tioga Road (Trail Trip 4) branches to the left.
The trail now leads almost level throughlodgepole pine and fir forests, emerging suddenly at the foot of ~Long Meadow~.
Lodgepole pine is the most common tree, covering the floor of the valley and extending up the mountains to about 8,000 feet.
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