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	Encyclopedia: Pine
		Arizona Pine The Arizona Pine {Pinus arizonica) is a medium-sized Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa).
		Loblolly Pine The Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) is one of the pines native to the southeast Spruce Pine.
		Turkish Pine The Turkish Pine (Pinus brutia) is a Cyprus.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pine (496 words)

	botany/pinus
		Pine trees are also tapped in several parts of the world, such as western France, the southeastern U.S., and the Himalayas, for the purpose of their resin, which when distilled provides turpentine and resin.
		Pines intended to grow in the forest should be set in their positions when quite small, from 9 to 12 inches high.
		Pines usually form straggly roots and it's difficult to dig them up with a good soil ball, but this is very important to successful transplanting of all but very small plants.
	www.botany.com /pinus.html (1351 words)

	Canary Island Pine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Canary Island Pine (Pinus canariensis) is a species in the genus Pinus, family Pinaceae, native to the outer Canary Islands (Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Gomera, Hierro, La Palma) in the Atlantic Ocean.
		Its closest relatives are the Chir Pine (Pinus roxburghii) from the Himalaya, and Turkish Pine from the eastern Mediterranean.
		The wood is among the highest quality of pine woods, hard, strong and durable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canary_Island_Pine (250 words)

	Articles - Pine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Monterey Pine, Pond Pine), the seeds are stored in closed ("serotinous") cones for many years until a forest fire kills the parent tree; the cones are also opened by the heat and the stored seeds are then released in huge numbers to re-populate the burnt ground.
		Siberian Dwarf Pine, Mountain Pine, Whitebark Pine and the bristlecone pines.
		Pine plantations can be at risk of fire damage because pine resin is flammable to the point of a tree being explosive under some conditions.
	www.izeez.com /articles/Pine (1298 words)

	Chir Pine - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)

The Chir pine (Pinus roxburghii) is a pine native to the Himalayas.

It is one of six pines occurring naturally in the Himalaya, generally occuring at lower altitudes than the others, from 500-2000 m, occasionally up to 2300 m.

The other Himalayan pines are Blue Pine, Bhutan White Pine, Chinese White Pine, Chilgoza Pine and Khasi Pine.

www.indopedia.org /Chir_Pine.html (574 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Chir Pine
		The Chir pine (Pinus roxburghii) is a pine native to the Himalaya.
		It generally occurs at lower altitudes than other pines in the Himalaya, from 500-2000 m, occasionally up to 2300 m.
		The other Himalayan pines are Blue Pine, Bhutan White Pine, Chinese White Pine, Chilgoza Pine and Sikang Pine.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Chir_Pine (495 words)

	Pinus; Pines
		Pines are among the oldest terrestrial plants in the world, first appearing more than 60,000,000 years ago during the Mesozoic era and emerging as highly successful competitors amongst the world's flora (Everett, 1981).
		Pines exhibit the greatest diversity of habitat and distribution of the the needle-type evergreens, being scattered throughout the Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to Guatemala, the West Indies, North Africa, and Malayan Archipelago (Dirr, 1975).
		Pines are generally large trees, with only a few dwarfish or shrubby species.
	www.discoverlife.org /nh/tx/Plantae/Gymnospermae/Pinaceae/Pinus (529 words)

	Retapping Chir Pines Trees in Himachal Pradesh, India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This research was carried out by Dilip Singh Mutum as part of the requirement for the Master of Science in Forestry degree in Dr. Yaswant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India, 1997.
		Out of five pines occurring naturally in India,viz., Pinus roxburghii Sargent, Pinus wallichiana Jackson, Pinus gerardiana Wall., Pinus kesiya Royle ex Gord and Pinus armandi French, only Pinus roxburghii Sargent (Chir pine or Himalayan long leaf pine) is tapped commercially for resin.
		The proportion of rosin and turpentine oil in Chir is 75% and 22% respectively with 3% losses, etc. Turpentine oil is chiefly used as a solvent in pharmaceutical preparations, perfume industry, in manufacture of synthetic pine oil, disinfectants, insecticides and denaturants.
	www.geocities.com /dsmutum/chir.html (806 words)

	nistads.res.in (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Blue pine, a large evergreen tree grows in temperate Himalayas at 1828-3810 m., extending westward to Afghanistan; and eastwards, except for gaps in Central and North-West Kumaon and Sikkim, to Bhutan.
		Pines are natives of tropics as well as the temperate climates.
		Chir pine is a three needled pine nearly related to the N American pitch pine (P. rigida and taeda).
	nistads.res.in /contents/reshigh/rh-bhaskar1.htm (1289 words)

	Friday, September 06, 2002 - COLUMN: GARDENING - Las Vegas View Neighborhood Newspapers
		Question: My Chir pine, which has been in the ground and growing well for six years, has, suddenly, in the last two months, started dropping its pine needles to the point that the bottom 6 feet of branches are bare.
		The Pine is in a rock garden watered by bubblers.
		Pines must have new growth year after year since this is where the new needles are produced.
	www.viewnews.com /2002/VIEW-Sep-06-Fri-2002/pahrump/19554332.html (1344 words)

	Bhutan: Seasonality of Forest Fires in Bhutan (IFFN No. 10 - January 1994)
		Blue pine, chir pine, mixed conifer, broadleaf with conifer, plantations and degraded forests, which cover approximately 40% of the total forest area, are most susceptible to frequent forest fires.
		Chir pine growing areas are also included in this zone because these are occurring mostly in drier sites.
		However, the zone of chir pine forest remains quite dry, and therefore fires may occur frequently.
	www.fire.uni-freiburg.de /iffn/country/bt/bt_1.htm (1564 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Himalayan subtropical pine forests (IM0301)
		The subtropical pine forests represented by this ecoregion extend as a long, disjunct strip from Pakistan in the west, through the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh in northern India, into Nepal and Bhutan.
		Although Champion and Seth (1968) indicate the presence of large areas of Chir pine in Arunachal Pradesh, the easternmost extent of large areas of Chir pine is in Bhutan.
		Extensive Chir pine plantations are present in Himachal Pradesh and in northwestern Uttar Pradesh.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0301_full.html (1182 words)

	RAOnline Nepal: Charikot Panorama Resort >> About the Plants
		Found sometimes in accossiation with sal is chir pine Pinus roburghii.
		Chir pine yields good timber, and the resin of the tree is sometimes collected for the industrial extraction of turpentine.
		It is also used for domestic lighting.Up to about 1 800m, chir pine is the only indigenous conifer likely to be encountered.
	www.raonline.ch /pages/np/char/charplant01.html (528 words)

	Welcome to Website of Pauri Garhwal (Uttaranchal)
		At times they are mixed with chir pine forests, the former occurring on moister sides and cooler aspects.
		In cooler aspects Deodar is accompanied by blue pine (pinus exelsa), silver fir and spruce.
		Chir pine and Deodar are being used for supply of timber, paper and match industries.
	pauri.nic.in /Nextpage15.htm (759 words)

	pine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Blue Pine forests occupy dry mountain valleys between altitudes of 2100 and 3000 m with an annual precipitation of 700 – 1200 mm/year, most of which falls during the monsoon period.
		Blue Pine forests form the temperate counterparts to Chir Pine forests as they occur in higher lying dry valleys.
		Blue Pine forests are widespread in the western (Ha, Paro, Thimphu) and the central (Bumthang, Chumey) regions of the country.
	ftp-waldoek.boku.ac.at /coret/general/pinenp.htm (132 words)

	Woodnotes Winter 1999
		When pines died, instead of replacing them with the same species or substituting a different species, the pines were replaced by broadleaf deciduous trees.For over fifty years, no pines except for Austrian pines were planted in Central Park.
		Pinus ayacahuite is the Mexican White Pine found on the mountain slopes and at the head of ravines in Central America north into all of Mexico.
		Pine seedlings, grown in the urban nursery of Central Park, will be grafted with root stock from the rural New York arboretum, to produce trees that will thrive in the urban environment.
	www.treelink.org /woodnotes/vol2/no4/article2.html (1004 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Blue Pine
		The Blue Pine (Pinus wallichiana) is a pine native to the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains, from eastern Afghanistan east to Yunnan in southwest China.
		In the past it was also often known as 'Bhutan Pine', but this is now avoided to reduce confusion with the more recently-described Pinus bhutanica, a closely related species.
		It is another commercial source of turpentine which is superior quality than that of Chir Pine (P.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Pinus_wallichiana (277 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Agriculture Tribune
		The fruit of chir is a woody cone.
		The sapwood of chir is rich in resin, which exudes naturally wherever the cambium is hurt.
		The chir pine tends to grow gregariously in beautiful even-sized stands in uniform aged crops.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20001030/agro.htm (3448 words)

	NON CHAOTIC EARTHQUAKE
		because of which shrubs were common in the oak forest but rare in the pine forest.
		Hence grass forms a sizeable part of ground vegetation in the chir-pine forests of this region and the soil here is residual brown earth derived from limestones, quartzite, shales and sandy loam.
		Herbaceous plant species characteristics of both chir-pine and oak forests were sampled during the peak of their growing season.
	www.ias.ac.in /currsci/dec25/articles30.htm (1833 words)

	Mailbag
		It is pertinent to mention here that "Water" is a forest produce and with destruction of chir pine forests due to wrong policy of Govt.
		Fake figures are shown about no of blazes and existing pine trees chir pine forests have been destroyed completely.
		The chir pine trees can't withstand the weak storm due to mutilation of their stems by excessive grooves, blazes,use of strong acid, burn wounds.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /web1/04may12/mail.htm (804 words)

	One Green World Online Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Chir Pine is hardy to about 10°F. Italian Stone Pine
		A beautiful tree with whorls of dark green needles, this very hardy Pine is an attractive and stately specimen tree planted singly or in groups.
		Its large and tasty pine nuts are gathered in large amounts and are greatly prized for their rich flavor and nutritional value.
	www.onegreenworld.com /index.php?cPath=2_76 (300 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Article
		Accumulation of a thick mat of chir pine needles on the floor of the forest acts as an active source of fuel of high inflammability.
		This menace repeated year after year is responsible for degradation of chir pine forests.
		As far back as 1914, a standard operating procedure on fire protection for chir pine forest was laid down by a British officer, Mr Glover.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020526/spectrum/main6.htm (1486 words)

	Forest
		CHIR PINE Forests are the most extensively developed type in the Nayyar catchments.
		Besides chir pine, the other tree species which may occur Cedrela toona (Toon), Anoegissous Latifolia, Ehertia laevis.
		The density of this forest varies from 0.3 to 0.6, the density tends to be higher in areas away from human settlements, intensive grazing, on sandy soil etc.
	pauri.nic.in /forest.htm (913 words)

	101Kidz.com : Wildlife Resources
		This deadly changeover is from Banj (Himalayan Oak) to Chir pine.
		The Banj leaves, falling as they do, year by year, create a rich fl mould in which develops a thick tangled mass of undergrowth (bushes, creepers, and grasses), which in their turn add to the leaf-mould deposit and the final result is a forest in which almost all the rain water becomes absorbed.
		In fact, often the ground in a Chir pine forest is as bare as a desert.
	www.101kidz.com /wildlife/thoughts2.html (635 words)

	Speedweb2000: national parks,jungles,wildlife reserves of Nepal
		The common tree species here are chir pine, spruce, fir, maple, birch, alder and rhodendron.Dense nigalo bamboo groves and wide varieties of medicinal herbs are also found here, The fauna includes the leopard, Himalayan yellow-throated marten, Himalayan fl bear, musk deer, ghoral and Himalayan tahr.
		Oaks, maple, various rhodendendrons, chir pine, fir, blue pine, hemlock and spruce are found here.
		It encompasses the east-west Churia hills of chir pine, khair, sisso and silk cotton and drops down tho the subtropical monsoon belt of sal forests and sabai grasslands.
	www.speedweb2000.com /nat_park.htm (1126 words)

	Uttaranchal Forest Development Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ancient temples of the region have Deodar beams of a length not found in present times owing to large-scale felling in the past.
		The Blue Pine is also known as Kail.
		The Chir Pine is found in the whole of Uttaranchal Hills.
	www.uafdc.org /types_forest.html (389 words)

	Wednesday, January 20, 1999 - Plants damaged by winter cold can still be salvaged - Las Vegas View Neighborhood ...
		Many of the African sumac came back from the crown (base) and the Chir pine was damaged only to the trunk.
		The Chir pine re-established itself in a matter of two to three years.
		Those pines still exist across the street from Sunrise Hospital on Maryland Parkway.
	www.viewnews.com /1999/VIEW-Jan-20-Wed-1999/SEast/10401310.html (889 words)

	SOME RECORDS OF THE ENDANGERED CHEER PHEASANT IN GARHWAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Direct encounter occurred in the Chir pine forest and pine mixed oak forest of Achcherikhal, Mandakhal, Agrora, Adwani and Chhantikhal area of the District Pauri Grahwal.
		Apart from hunting, other observed causes for the depletion of Cheer pheasant in Garhwal region are fire and deforestation cheer pheasant usually prefers pine forests, which are most vulnerable for fire.
		Now the time has come when policies and legislative acts should be strictly followed and the forests to be managed, so that we can make our new state, Uttaranchal prosperous through wise use of natural resources.
	gbpihed.nic.in /envis/HTML/vol10_1/msbisht.html (903 words)

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