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Lodgepole   /lˈɑdʒpˌoʊl/   Listen
Lodgepole

noun
1.
Shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares.  Synonyms: lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta, shore pine, spruce pine.



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"Lodgepole" Quotes from Famous Books



... grove somber enough for Druidical sacrifice. White cliffs stretched high above the camp, with pine-trees growing at all angles from the interstices of rock. At the foot of the cliffs, and on the green slope that stretched far below to the forest of lodgepole pines, stood many conical, tent-like formations of rock. They were even whiter than the canvas tepees which were grouped in front of them. At any time of the day these formations were uncanny. In time of morning or evening shadow the effect upon the imagination was ...
— Mystery Ranch • Arthur Chapman

... the confines of the National Forests. These were at first small and isolated. Only one large tract drew his attention, that belonging to old Simeon Wright in the big meadows under Black Peaks. These meadows, occupying a wide plateau grown sparsely with lodgepole pine, covered perhaps a thousand acres of good grazing, and were held legally, but without the shadow of equity, by the old land pirate who owned so much of California. In going over both the original records, the newer geological ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White

... level. Far below them a pale mist obscured the beautiful silver spruce which had reached their upward limit. Around the cabin marched a scattering of the balsam fir. They were nine thousand feet above the sea, at least. Still higher up the sallow forest of lodgepole pines began; and above these, beyond the timberline, rose the ...
— Bull Hunter • Max Brand



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