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Sugar Pine Pinus lambertiana
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Sugar Pine
Pinus lambertiana
Characteristics
• Tallest of Pines
• Grows unusually straight up
• Silhouette much like Ponderosa
• Leaves 2-5” in bundles of 5
• Bark of older trees often grayish brown
• Cones up to more than 20”
Ecology
• Both east side and west side of cascades
• In mixed coniferous forests
• Many associations with birds and mammals
• Seeds of large cones eaten by birds and mammals
• Lumbering demands have exceeded natural replacement