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The principal forest community of the lower subalpine zone comprises Engelmann spruce Picea engelmannii, limber pine Pinus flexilis and lodgepole pine P. contorta.
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Subalpine forests consist of groves of limber pine (Pinus flexilis), lodgepole pine, and Jeffrey pine.
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Subalpine woodlands are among the highest elevation woodlands in the region and consist of white pines (P. flexilis or P. longaeva).
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Limber pine (Pinus flexilis) also occurs but is relatively limited.
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The goal of this expanded network is to provide a more complete picture of past temperature variability in western North America over the past several centuries through analysis of ring width, ring density, and cell size chronologies from Larix lyalli, Picea engelmannii, Pinus albicaulis, and P. flexilis.
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Four major woodland and forest types have been identified in this region, including montane white fir (Abies concolor) forest, subalpine woodland, limber pine (P. flexilis) woodland, and Great Basin bristlecone pine (P. longaeva) woodland.
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Constance Millar, url who wrote an excellent article on the medieval warm period in California, discussed here has written an interesting and timely article (presently in review) on thelate 20th century in the Sierra Nevadas, entitled: Response of high-elevation limber pine (Pinus flexilis) to multi-year droughts and 20th-century warming; Sierra Nevada, California.
Late 20th Century Limber Pine Growth Decline « Climate Audit 2006
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This is the largest Pinus flexilis that I have run across, but I suppose there may be others as great.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2001
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_Tigridia_, &c., and more rarely in _Yucca_ (_Y. flexilis_ [401]).
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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I wish to describe the limber pine, _Pinus flexilis_, for it is not only
Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Carl Weschcke 1933
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