what non-conifer trees can be used at 7000 foot elevation where spruce and pine grew before the pine beetle?
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I also live in Wyoming, but at 7,500 feet.  I have cottonwood and aspen in my yard.  Visit with your local tree nursey in Cody and they should be able to help you out.  \n\nAlso, if pine beetle is the problem, they are species specific and should not be attacking you spruce.
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I know Indiana and Illinois used to have more forest and have been mostly bared for cropland. Also Northern California.\n\nOn the opposite end, a lot of Colorado has been planted with pines. Where I live it's basically a high desert, and there\nwere no trees in town when it was first built, they were planted by the settlers.
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anything over 50 feet in the u.s.
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a sycamore tree just because they have strong roots and will grow really tall if you dont cut them and becaus epocahontas sang about them in the movie remember "how high does the sycamore grow if you cut it down them youll never know"
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I am not sure if they are the BIGGEST on the earth, but in CA you can find GIANT cones from the Coulter pine or Digger pine trees.  These are bigger than a football and can weigh a couple pounds.  I would never recommend sleeping in a sleeping bag or tent under one of these pine trees, esp when there is a lot of wind!  There are so heavy and sharp (spines) that they could probably inflict a serious blow-wound that could possibly give a concussion, a huge bump or even kill.  It would leave a serious dent on your car too and could probably even break a windshield of a car. The wood of the cone is very thick, dense and hard!
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Good frickin question. Let me know where I can find the trees!
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It is not a type of tree that produces what you are looking for.  It is a process of converting the wood/pulp to papper and layering it with layers of plastic to give it those properties.
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"Prettiest" is a very subjective term.\n\nPersonally, I find that a fully mature American Elm tree is very pleasing.  One of the best shade trees you can have.  Sadly nearly wiped out in most of North America by Dutch Elm Disease.\n\nThe African Baobab is also very cool, with the massive central pillar that looks like it could withstand dinosaurs.\n\nHuge Douglas Fir and California Redwoods will fill you with awestruck majesty, especially when taken en masse in an ancient forest.  It's too bad there's so few of them left because someone decided they make nice picnic tables.\n\nBald Cypress in a deep florida or Louisiana swamp is another tree that will conjure images of dinosaurs.\n\nHeck, about the only tree I don't like is the Black Ash (Fraxinus niger) now that's an ugly tree.
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Plants/Trees in Appalachian Mountains\n\nSpruce, common name for a genus of about 40 species of coniferous trees, indigenous to the northern hemisphere, nearly half being natives of North America. The genus, of the pine family, was formerly combined with a fir genus, from which it differs in having pendulous cones, persistent woody leaf-bases, and four-angled leaves, scattered and pointing in every direction. Spruces occur farther north than most trees, forming forests within the Arctic Circle, and extending south, especially in the mountains, as far as the Pyrenees in Europe and the Himalayas in Asia; in the United States, spruces occur as far south as North Carolina and Arizona. The white spruce and black spruce cover extensive areas in Canada, almost to the total exclusion of other trees. In Europe the Norway spruce is similarly distributed; the timber is valuable for fuel and for house building and is exported from Norway and Sweden for masts and spars of sailing vessels.\n\nIn North America the prevailing species over the greatest extent of territory are the white spruce and the black spruce, although in lumbering the two species are seldom distinguished. The former is found from New York to British Columbia and northward to Newfoundland and Labrador, Hudson Bay, and Alaska. The white wood is light in weight, soft, compact, nearly odorless, and with scarcely distinguishable sapwood. It is used for general building purposes and also yields some of the spruce gum of commerce.\n\nThe black spruce has a distribution somewhat similar to that of the white, except that it descends along the mountains to Virginia. It is a somewhat smaller tree, but otherwise similar to the white spruce. It forms immense forests in Maine, New York, Canada, and elsewhere and is used largely for wood pulp and paper. A third species, the red spruce, a valuable timber tree, is limited essentially to New England but is also found along the Appalachians as far south as Georgia.
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The cone bering vascular plants are the conifers.The commenest is the X'mas tree.Their flowering and fruiting bodies are called CONES due to their conical shape. All these are huge trees and found in cold temparate countries like the USA and Canada as well as many Europien countries.Botanically they are all classified as Gymnosperms.Pines and Cedruses are other examples.A coniferous tree like Sequoia gigantia can grow upto 350 feet in height. The red wood forest in California USA is famous for them.Some such trees are in existence before the Christian Era.
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625 feet above sea level
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I agree with Demonus H - pine often burns smoky and it could send off sparks.\n\nYou want standing dead wood, if possible, which has the most potential for burning dry.\n\nYou want hard wood, like maple, oak, hickory that burns for a long time.\n\nUse softer woods for fire-starting - willow, tulip tree poplar are good for that.\n\nWhen you get your fire going - find a live pine tree, take a handful of needles and make pine needle tea - Yum!  \n\nRecipe is at link below:
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Spruce Knob, which at 4,863 feet (1,482 m)
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RE: your request "need to know what are some future plans of the redwoods"\n\nRedwoods or other trees don't make plans, but I know what you meant. :)\nLook at this for a starter: http://redwoods.bullhorn.org/news/20000717/internet_sem.html\n\nThis is the kind of answer your teacher is probably looking for.  Big corporations raping the forests, etc.  While a lot of that line of thought is true, it is not usually as bad as they claim.  You might gently suggest there is some sign of hope by using the idea of "sustainablility" of the forests (IE, replanting redwoods as they are cut, similar to how the pine forests in the southeast have been placed millions of acres of land in regrowing pines as a method to continue to provide us with building wood and paper producst). \n\nFind more interesting information just by typing in your question into Google and read all you can.  You never know, you might find it interesting.
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Any Hardware/lumber store ie. Home Depot or Lowes.  Ask for landscaping timbers.  most have rounded sides so they are safe.
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The pine; it's got cones.
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Cabernet :)\n\nor maybe crabs. \n\nyou can grow pretty much anything there, you know