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  • Higher up, one finds tan oak and canyon live oak woodlands eventually grading into forests of ponderosa pine, sugar pine, Jeffrey pine, Coulter pine, and serpentine-associated knobcone pine.

    California montane chaparral and woodlands 2008

  • Closed-cone pine communities historically burned about once every 25-50 years, and some species, such as the knobcone pine (Pinus attenuata), require fire to open their cones.

    California interior chaparral and woodlands 2008

  • Strictly protect ecologic islands and populations of rare species such as Gowen cypress and knobcone pine forests, vernal pools, and bigcone Douglas-fir and Santa Lucia fir groves.

    California montane chaparral and woodlands 2008

  • A six year old with a bowsaw can take down a 15-year-old knobcone that's 15 or 20′ high, it's soft wood, easy to cut.

    RealClimate 2009

  • Hank, I'm not sure why you dislike a native species like the knobcone pine.

    RealClimate 2009

  • Hank, I'm not sure why you dislike a native species like the knobcone pine.

    RealClimate 2009

  • A six year old with a bowsaw can take down a 15-year-old knobcone that's 15 or 20′ high, it's soft wood, easy to cut.

    RealClimate 2009

  • Hank, I'm not sure why you dislike a native species like the knobcone pine.

    RealClimate 2009

  • A six year old with a bowsaw can take down a 15-year-old knobcone that's 15 or 20′ high, it's soft wood, easy to cut.

    RealClimate 2009

  • Hank, I'm not sure why you dislike a native species like the knobcone pine.

    RealClimate 2009

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