Ponderosa

The West's Vast Ponderosa Pine Forest has been home to people for thousands of years. Ponderosas from distant mountains provided timbers for ancient southwestern pueblos, and nomadic Indians often wintered among the pines and peeled their bark for food in spring. Pioneers on horseback marveled as they rode through yesterday's forest of giant pines and grassy glades. Ponderosa timber built Cold Rush-era flumes and sluice boxes, frontier towns, and ties and trestles for the transcontinental r...