No one is really certain when the massive tree tucked deep in the Tushar Mountains first took root or who was the first to ...

A profound unraveling is underway in the American Southwest, happening across a thousand-mile arc from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the central Sierra. In an unprecedented calamity, the most widely ...

An environmental enigma in Keystone at least a decade in the making was finally cracked this past week, and the unpredictable event could have ramifications for generations to come. The ponderosa pine ...

Ponderosa pine trees are one of the most ubiquitous conifer species in western North America, extending from southern British Columbia all the way down to northern Mexico. In the American Southwest, ...

The ponderosa tree with the largest circumference on record is in La Pine State Park. At one point, it was also designated the world’s tallest at 191 feet, but weather damaged its crown, lowering the ...

Spokane City Council is expected to pass a resolution next Monday that would make Ponderosa Pine the official tree of Spokane. If passed, the Ponderosa would join the ranks of the lilac, the City’s ...

High on Flagstaff Mountain, a ponderosa pine had quietly succumbed during the summer of 2020, but its green needles lingered another year to blanch in the fall of 2021. The tree was now conspicuous, ...

The ponderosa pine was first described by trail-blazing Northwest explorer Meriwether Lewis in 1805 and botanically identified by David Douglas in 1826 from a location near present-day Spokane. The ...

A mountain chickadee peers down from its perch in a ponderosa pine. Click here for larger image. Photo by Jeff Mitton. As the most recent glaciers subsided, ponderosa pines move north from their ...

In Spokane County, where the value of ponderosa pines is often in the eye of the beholder, a kerfuffle arose last month over a 17-acre stand of the region’s most prolific tree. The incident started ...