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Scouting for Trees – An Effort to Locate and Appreciate Trees in the High Desert

Tree species will be described and located (I will welcome input from everyone!)  Some of the pages are not quite complete.  

 

SPECIES/Common Name
Abies concolor/White Fir
Abies grandis/Grand Fir
Abies lasiocarpa/Subalpine Fir
Abies magnifica/Red Fir
Calocedrus decurrens/Incense Cedar*
Juniperus communis/Common Juniper
Juniperus occidentalis/Western Juniper
Juniperus osteosperma/Utah Juniper
Juniperus scopulorum/Rocky Mountain Juniper
Larix occidentalis/Western Larch
Picea engelmannii/Engelmann Spruce
Pinus albicaulis/Whitebark Pine
Pinus contorta/Lodgepole Pine
Pinus flexilis/Limber Pine
Pinus jeffreyi/Jeffrey Pine
Pinus lambertiana/Sugar Pine (new-showing descrepencies between range map & observations!)
Pinus longaeva/Bristlecone Pine
Pinus monophylla/Single-leaf Pinyon Pine
Pinus monticola/Western White Pine*
Pinus ponderosa/Ponderosa Pine*
Pseudotsuga menziesii/Douglas-fir*
Tsuga mertensiana/Mountain Hemlock

*Updated

All photos and maps in these pages created by Bob Earle unless otherwise credited

Much of the tree distribution data in the above tree maps is from Elbert L. Little

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