Blog: Cold Splinters

My favorite tree. The Jeffrey Pine , named in honor of its botanist documenter John Jeffrey , occurs from southwest Oregon through much of California (mainly in the Sierra Nevada) and all the way down to northern Baja California in Mexico. In the north of its range, it grows widely at 4,900 to 6,900 ft and to the south, anywhere between 5,900 to 9,500 feet. The tree gets between 82 to 130 feet tall and the leaves are needle-like and grow in bundles of three. The cones are [...]

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