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Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri), or big-cone pine, is a conifer in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.Coulter pine is an evergreen conifer that lives up to 100 years. [2] It is a native of the coastal mountains of Southern California in the United States and northern Baja California in Mexico, occurring in mediterranean climates, where winter rains are infrequent and summers are dry with ...
Pinus coulteri - Coulter pine; Pinus edulis - Colorado pinyon; Pinus flexilis - Limber pine; Pinus jeffreyi - Jeffrey pine; Pinus lambertiana - Sugar pine; Pinus longaeva - Great Basin bristlecone pine; Pinus monophylla - Single-leaf pinyon; Pinus monticola - Western white pine; Pinus muricata - Bishop pine; Pinus ponderosa (syn. P. washoensis ...
The higher elevation Madrean Sky Islands are dominated by pinyon pine and California juniper (Juniperus californica), with areas of Manzanita and Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri). More than half of the Colorado Desert's plant species are herbaceous annuals, and appropriately timed winter rains produce abundant early Spring wildflowers. In the ...
Overstory species include coulter pine, monterey pine, bishop pine, shore pine, and several endemic cypresses, species which generally rely on fire to open their cones and release seeds. Closed-cone forests often grow in low nutrient and/or stressed soils, which can lead to slow growth.
Subsection Ponderosae is native to Central America, Mexico, the western United States, and southwestern Canada, [4] [13] although its former range was possibly much wider as evidenced by upper Miocene fossils belonging to this subsection found in Japan [14] P. arizonica – Arizona pine; P. cooperi – Cooper's pine; P. coulteri – Coulter pine
Jeffrey pine wood and ponderosa pine wood are sold together as yellow pine. [10] Both kinds of wood are hard (with a Janka hardness of 550 lbf (2,400 N)), but the western yellow pine wood is less dense than southern yellow pine wood (28 lb/cu ft (0.45 g/cm 3 ) versus 35 lb/cu ft (0.56 g/cm 3 ) for shortleaf pine).
The Algodones Dunes. The Colorado Desert is a subregion of the larger Sonoran Desert, [1] covering about 7 million acres (2.8 million ha; 28,000 km 2). [2] The desert occupies Imperial County, parts of San Diego and Riverside counties, and a small part of San Bernardino County in California, United States, [3] as well as the northern part of Mexicali Municipality in Baja California, Mexico.
The Roosevelt National Forest began on May 22, 1902 as part of the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve. It was renamed the Colorado National Forest in 1910, and was renamed to honor President Theodore Roosevelt in 1932. [1] The forest has a total area of 813,799 acres (1,271.56 sq mi, or 3,293.33 km 2). [2]