ponderosa

• That is a picture-post-card region with skyscraping moun­tains covered with ponderosa, valleys of unforgettable loveliness, and inhospitable deserts; but it is unsuitable for farming, and many of the Indians live mere in windowless wooden shacks with corrugated metal roofs and subsist on meager supplies from the scrawny hand of welfare, and the crops grow sparsely on a sprinkling of tillable soil. —  Cheif Red Fox
• Most of the sequoia around them were six to ten feet thick, some thicker, but a smaller pine—perhaps a ponderosa or Douglas fir—was growing in a sunny patch a few yards to their left. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
• For most of our kids, who had grown up in a town of some 60,000 people, it was probably the only time they had ever been alone in the woods, in the dark, listening to the stir of small mammals and the flap of owl wings and the rustle of ponderosa-pine branches in the night breeze. —  WorldsEnough ;Time
• The beetles are attacking and killing larger diameter lodgepole, ponderosa, limber, and bristlecone pines. —  coloradoan.com - Local News
• This remote area includes a series of high, narrow mesas surrounded by cliff-lined canyons that supports piñon pine and juniper woodlands and occasional clusters of ponderosa pine, with a perennial warm season grass savanna on the mesa tops. —  The Cherry Creek News

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