Participant Info

Species

Pinus ponderosa [Pinus brachyptera]

Family

Pinaceae

CommonName

ponderosa

Presence

Yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1935

LatestDate

2020

Ecosystem

foothill, montane

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

Cochetopa

WildlifePreserves

Coller, Great Sand Dunes, Rio Grande

Other Localities

La Botica

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: San Francisco Creek (medicine tree) 13 May 2020

Comments

First tree of choice with late 19th and early 20th century logging operations, ponderosa is still a dominant tree in the foothills, occasionally ranging higher, even making it up to the old Cochetopa Pass. The Pinus ponderosa of the Watershed is subsp. scopulorum. In the USA, ponderosa is present in all mountain ranges west of the Great Plains. It follows the Rio Grande drainage all the way to the Big Bend country of Texas.

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