It is the result of a cross between Ponderosa and Dwarf Champion--one of the strongest-growing sorts.
Illustration: tassel-eared squirrel] In selecting a nesting site the tassel-eared squirrel turns again to its favorite tree, the ponderosa pine.
It adapts very well to new conditions, seeming to need only a favorable climate and a ponderosa pine forest in which to live.
Favorite food of the tassel-eared squirrel is, of course, the large single-winged seeds found under scales of ponderosa pine cones.
In this range is found what is often referred to as the "greatest unbroken stand of ponderosa pine to be found in this country.
Of the many species of plants and animals found as associates of this forest, perhaps none is more dependent on ponderosa pine than the tassel-eared squirrel.
It is characterized by open forests of ponderosa pine usually intermingled with scattered thickets of Gambel oak.
Lying at an elevation of nearly 7,000 feet, about one-third of the monument receives sufficient rain and snow to support a handsome stand of ponderosa pine.
These are the ponderosa pines, Arizona cypress, and Douglas-fir trees descended from the moist woodland species that populated this region during the last Ice Age.
The battle seesaws back and forth between drought and ponderosa pine, tarbush and tabosa-grass, the eater and the eaten, the river and the rock, and the sun and the ageless land.
If we are entering another Ice Age, what a new lease on life this will be for the high mountain forests of Douglas-fir, ponderosa pines, Arizona cypress, and quaking aspen.
Sheltered parts of the north-facing slope support stands of Douglas fir, and at a few places some ponderosa pines.
After four months on the Mesa Verde, Quaintance concluded that there were not so many porcupines as had been expected and that there were more ponderosa pines than had been expected.
Porcupines were suspected of killing ponderosa pine, which occurred in only a few places, and which was thought to be necessary for wild turkeys.
In this state it contains water, and therefore, when exposed to heat, will yield fixed air; whereas the terra ponderosa aerata will not yield fixed air by heat only, but when steam is made to pass over it when red hot.
In this acid the terra ponderosa is held in perfect solution; but with the vitriolic acid it forms a substance that is insoluble in water, and therefore it instantly appears in the form of a white cloud.
That water is an essential part of fixed air is proved by an experiment upon terra ponderosa aerata, which yields fixed air when it is dissolved in an acid, but not by mere heat.
We found one in the dead top of an aspen, 5 in dead tops of ponderosa pine, and 26 in ponderosa pine snags.
It is probably most abundant in open coniferous or mixed forests and is reported specifically in ponderosa pine, mixed conifer, and fir-redwood-cedar forests.
We found three nests behind the loosened bark of deadponderosa pines and one in a white fir snag in the White Mountains of Arizona.
At Boca Reservoir, California, 10 of 11 nests were in dead ponderosa pines, and the other was in a hollow section of a living pine.
In Arizona ponderosa pine forests, an average of 2.
The feeding patterns of sapsuckers on ponderosa pine in northeastern California.
We recorded six nests in the White Mountains of Arizona ranging from 12 to 35 feet above ground in ponderosapine snags.
In Arizona, we found two nests in ponderosa pine snags.
In Colorado, black-caps are most abundant in the ponderosa pine and aspen forests (Bailey and Niedrach 1965).
Of course they were our old friends, the Ponderosa pine, whose name will always be associated with our grand old man from Nebraska.
Mr. Purdham: I don't know anything about that, but for a late variety of tomato the Ponderosa is quite a tomato; it is a very large tomato.
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