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The park's "Longfellow Pine" is the tallest presently living eastern white pine in the Northeast, at 55.96 m (183 ft 7 in) tall, as determined by tape drop. [18] The Mohawk Trail State Forest of Massachusetts has 83 trees measuring 45 m (148 ft) or more tall, of which six exceed 48.8 m (160 ft).
The most visible tree type in the region are conifers. The most prevalent conifers are balsam fir, eastern hemlock, northern white cedar, and eastern white pine . This northern region supplied much of the lumber used in the first 250 years of settlement in the United States.
Pinus monticola - Western white pine; Pinus muricata - Bishop pine; Pinus ponderosa (syn. P. washoensis) - Ponderosa pine; Pinus radiata - Monterey pine, radiata pine; Pinus remota - Texas pinyon, papershell pinyon; Pinus sabineana - Gray pine, foothill pine, digger pine; Pinus strobiformis - Southwestern white pine; Pinus torreyana - Torrey pine
Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) Red pine (North America) (Pinus resinosa) Scots pine, red pine (UK) (Pinus sylvestris) White pine. Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) Western white pine (Pinus monticola) Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) Southern yellow pine. Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) Pitch pine (Pinus rigida)
By the early 19th century, the demand for lumber reached the Pine Creek Gorge, where the surrounding mountainsides were covered with eastern white pine 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 m) in diameter and 150 feet (46 m) or more tall, eastern hemlock 9 feet (2.7 m) in circumference, and huge hardwoods.
P. monticola – western white pine; P. morrisonicola – Taiwan white pine; P. parviflora – Japanese white pine; P. hakkodensis – Hakkoda pine; P. peuce – Macedonian pine; P. pumila – Siberian dwarf pine; P. ravii; P. sibirica – Siberian pine; P. strobus – eastern white pine; P. strobiformis – Southwestern white pine (also ...
The old-growth forest is from 122 acres (49 ha) to 150 acres (61 ha) in extent, but the scenic area is most famous for its 20 acres (8.1 ha) of tall white pine and Eastern hemlock. [9] Many of these trees have diameters of over 40 inches (102 cm) and heights of over 140 feet (43 m), [2] and most of the white pine are between 300 and 400 years old.
Frontispiece for the 1918 publication of Volumes III and IV in the series. The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, subtitled "A Bi-Monthly Publication Suggesting the Architectural Use of White Pine and Its Availability Today as a Structural Wood", was a landmark publication of drawings, photographs and descriptions of early American architecture.