How to Use ponderosa pine in a Sentence
ponderosa pine
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To the south, the heads of the Zuni mountains rise in dark piñon and ponderosa pine.
—John Kissane, Outside Online, 26 Feb. 2021
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In the West, mid-slope ponderosa pines make great roosting spots.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 18 Apr. 2023
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The fire's main fuel sources were brush, ponderosa pine and mixed conifer, the site stated.
—Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
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Norton pointed to a ponderosa pine that stood next to my porch.
—Samantha Falewée, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2023
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The area of the park where the hunt will take place, the North Rim, is full of tall ponderosa pine, quaking aspen trees and pools of water.
—Azi Paybarah New York Times, Star Tribune, 7 May 2021
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The terrain is largely sandy, and full of pinyon and ponderosa pine.
—The Editors, Field & Stream, 12 Sep. 2019
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Massages are on tap in the tented spa, which is set in a ponderosa pine forest.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 10 Nov. 2023
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The campground spreads amid a shady stand of ponderosa pines and includes 50 single-unit sites.
—Roger Naylor, azcentral, 17 June 2019
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Surrounding the city is the world’s largest contiguous stand of ponderosa pine forest, and some of the finest runs are a romp through the woods.
—Jen Rose Smith, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
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At the time, Klamath managed one of the largest ponderosa pine forests in Oregon, and was one of the wealthiest tribes in the nation.
—Meghan Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2021
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Travel 12 miles on this twisting dirt road through big stands of ponderosa pine.
—Roger Naylor, azcentral, 8 June 2018
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And the valley was nearly silent, except for the rushing waters of the Merced River and the wind blowing through the ponderosa pines.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2020
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Earlier this year, the Wildlife Area crew pruned many of the ponderosa pine trees near the road, improving the view to the feeding site, Marvin said.
—Jayson Jacoby, oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2021
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Combined, the area is over 8 million acres of national forest and is part of the largest ponderosa pine forest in the world.
—Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2021
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The Western saw-whet owl likes a twelve-year-old thicket of fir and ponderosa pine; deer find soft green bites in a four-year-old stand of red cedar and white pine.
—The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
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There are also mature stands of red fir, white fir, ponderosa pine and sugar pine.
—Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2019
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The fuels for the Flag Fire are ponderosa pine at higher elevations as well as brush and grass.
—Nienke Onneweer, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2021
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The odor was round and earthy: notes of crushed ponderosa pine needles, redwood tree bark, algae from the lazy Eel River, dust kicked up from dirt roads.
—Alia Volz, Bon Appétit, 20 Apr. 2020
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Over her 23-year career, she’s seen ponderosa pines disappear from this part of the Jemez.
—Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 9 May 2018
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Buried by the base of a dead tree stump, with roots slowly spreading deeper under the ashes of the Wallow Fire, a ponderosa pine seedling grows.
—AZCentral.com, 28 June 2021
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Over the course of two weeks, the Highline Fire scorched nearly 7,200 acres, climbing right up the rocky walls of the Rim, then taking off into the ponderosa pine forest above.
—azcentral, 15 May 2018
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In 2002, the Rodeo-Chediski Fire burned nearly half a million acres of Arizona’s ponderosa pine forests, ushering in the first mega-fire, but not the last.
—AZCentral.com, 8 Jan. 2023
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At the small grade school tucked into the ponderosa pine forest about 20 miles west of Flagstaff, most everyone knows each other.
—Felicia Fonseca, azcentral, 2 May 2018
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Here, streams have eroded down into Pine Ridge, a landscape of rolling prairie with some ponderosa pine on Ogalala Lakota lands.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2015
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The fire is spreading so quickly because ponderosa pines can burn easily and help scatter the fire on windy days, Abel said.
—Andrew Nicla, azcentral, 23 July 2019
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Peaks reaching more than a mile high form the backdrop to Bear Valley, a kaleidoscope of green pastures mixed with ponderosa pines, firs, cedars and oak trees.
—Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2024
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At the small grade school tucked into the ponderosa pine forest about 20 miles west of Flagstaff, Ariz., everyone knows everyone.
—Felicia Fonesca, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2018
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From there, the highway leads to Christina Lake, surrounded by ponderosa pine forests in the heart of the Monashee Mountains—hot and hopping in summer, cool and tranquil in fall.
—Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2019
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The first mile takes it easy, twisting among ponderosa pines, alligator junipers and oaks with glimpses of 8,578-foot Wing Mountain standing out to the west.
—Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 9 June 2023
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We’re covered with forests, including the world’s largest ponderosa pine forest.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2024
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