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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Pine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Pines are coniferous trees of the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae.
Pines are mostly monoecious, having the male and female cones on the same tree, though a few species are sub-dioecious with individuals predominantly, but not wholly, single-sex.
Pines are commercially among the most important of species used for timber in temperate and tropical regions of the world.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Pine   (1341 words)

  
 Pine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
The bark of a pine in Tecpan, Guatemala.
Pines are commercially among the most important of species used for timber and wood pulp in temperate and tropical regions of the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pine   (1338 words)

  
 Pine
Pine refers to coniferous trees of the Genus Pinus in the Family Pinaceae.
Pines are monoecious: having male and female cones on the same tree.
Pines are native to most of North America, ranging from the Arctic to Mexico and Nicaragua and the West Indies.
www.backyardagora.com /glossary/pine.htm   (405 words)

  
 Search Tuna Report for Appalachians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
To the E is the Piedmont (foothill) region....
Long a major north-south travel and settlement corridor, the Great Valley is one of the most fertile areas in the E United States....
Highland Rim The mixed mesophytic forest is restricted mostly to the deeper ravines and escarpment slopes, and the summit or tableland forests are primarly dominated by mixed oaks and shortleaf pine....
www.searchtuna.com:8004 /ftlive/750.html   (2671 words)

  
 Namweb Internet Services - Fire danger can only get worse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In the Angeles National Forest, the Crown Fire that started in Acton was creeping toward an area thick with thousands of dead juniper and pine trees ravaged by lack of rain and an infestation of bark beetles.
As early as March, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency across much of Southern California as a result of "imminent fire danger" because of prolonged drought, dead and diseased trees, forests packed with fuels and bug infestations.
While wildfires are fairly common throughout most of the year, the magnitude of the Crown, Foothill and Pine fires underscores the dangers lurking in the dry brush.
www.namweb.com.na /article-2827-thread-0-0.html   (883 words)

  
 Sacred Earth Newsletter - September 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
With its extensive tropical forests, high mountain habitat, lowlands, savannas, pine forest, river and streams, species rich lagoons and countless cays along the barrier reef, this small tropical country has an avifauna approaching 600 species of both temperate and topical birds in natural habitats that remain largely unspoiled.
Considering that each and every American consumes about six 30-year old pines in paper per year and the per-acre yield of Kenaf is 3-5 times higher than that of Pine, Kenaf is the obvious environmentally friendly choice.
The special focus of the study were four states of the central and north eastern region of the eastern Himalayas - Uttaranchal, Arunachal Pradesh (with over 500 species of medicinal plants), Himachal Pradesh (with 3000 plant species) and Meghalaya (another storehouse of medicinal plants in the country).
www.sacredearth.com /Ezine/September2005/autumn05.htm   (11261 words)

  
 Naturalist Events Calendar
This property, adjacent to Concord, was recently acquired by Save Mount Diablo (SMD) to preserve the corridor of wildlands between Mount Diablo State Park and Lime Ridge Open Space.
The ranch is not open to the general public, so this hike-led by Seth Adams, director of land programs for SMD-is a special opportunity to visit these unspoiled foothills.
This beautiful park is not only home to wind-swept coastal bluffs and a closed-cone pine forest of bishop pines, it also embraces elements of the north coastal coniferous forests, swamps with Labrador tea and fringed corn-lily, and the southernmost example of a pygmy forest with pygmy cypresses.
www.sfns.org /events.html   (8113 words)

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