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A Closed-cone conifer forest or woodland is a plant community occurring in coastal California and several offshore islands. The forests typically have a single-aged single-species conifer overstory with dense ladder fuels. Overstory species include coulter pine, monterey pine, bishop pine, shore pine, and several endemic cypresses, species ...
The Jennings Creek Wildfire had expanded to 3,500 acres and was 20% contained, according to an update around 7 p.m. Monday from the New Jersey Forest Fire Service, which is sharing command duties ...
Updated November 7, 2024 at 12:52 AM. VENTURA, Calif. — A brush fire that erupted northwest of Los Angeles on Wednesday has burned more than 14,000 acres, engulfing homes, prompting rescues, and ...
The National Weather Service issued a Red Flag warning until 6 p.m. Thursday – which is used to describe “extreme and life-threatening fire behavior.”. The warning is expected to affect 25 ...
P. attenuata. Binomial name. Pinus attenuata. Lemmon. The knobcone pine, Pinus attenuata (also called Pinus tuberculata), [2] is a tree that grows in mild climates on poor soils. It ranges from the mountains of southern Oregon to Baja California with the greatest concentration in northern California and the Oregon-California border.
Methuselah is a 4,856-year-old [1] Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California. [2][3] It is recognized as the non- clonal tree with the greatest confirmed age in the world. [4] Its old age is a result of harsh weather and a lack of nutrients, which slow down the ...
A firefighter works near the remains of a home that was destroyed in the Mountain Fire on Nov. 8, 2024, in Camarillo, California. Fueled by strong winds, the fire burned across more than 20,000 ...
Conifer cone. A mature female big-cone pine (Pinus coulteri) cone, the heaviest pine cone. A young female or seed cone on a Norway spruce (Picea abies) Immature male or pollen cones of Swiss pine (Pinus cembra) A conifer cone or, in formal botanical usage, a strobilus, pl.: strobili, is a seed-bearing organ on gymnosperm plants, especially in ...