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Here's proof that "Corkbark firs" grow in northern Arizona.

"Walking through forests - of palm tree apartments ---
Scoff at the monkeys who live in their dark tents,
Down by the waterhole --- drunk every Friday ---
Eating their nuts - saving their raisins for Sunday.
Lions and tigers, who wait in the shadows ---
They're fast but they're lazy, and sleep in GREEN meadows.

Let's bungle in the jungle! Well, that's alright by me.
I'm a tiger when I want love,
But I'm a snake if we disagree."

(Jethro Tull - 1974)

Just some pretty trees growing along the Inner Basin Trail, east of AZ's San Francisco Peaks.
This photo was taken above 9,000 feet in elevation.
October 15, 2008

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Marcsoltan

Beautiful

Voted 10/10

photo Larry. Keep posting.
cheers,
Marc

Posted Oct 20, 2008 4:28 pm


	lcarreau	Re: Beautiful
	Hasn't voted	Thanks, Marc! I'm trying to get one together right now... No snow yet on the San Francisco Peaks! There might have been a "dusting" at 12,000'. All the leaves have fallen on the aspens. Best regards - Larry
		Posted Oct 20, 2008 8:39 pm

Dean

Those can't be...

Voted 10/10

Arizona pines Larry. Most of the Arizona pines I've seen are all black looking. Ask Dennis, he has made the same observation.

Posted Jan 20, 2009 11:36 pm


	lcarreau	Re: Those can't be...
	Hasn't voted	Wasn't there a song back in the 1960s titled: "Paint It Black?" I'm going to have to retire my paintbrush! It's getting me into way too much TROUBLE!!!!!!
		Posted Jan 21, 2009 9:05 pm

Clark_Griswold

Corkbark Fir

Hasn't voted

These are cork bark firs growing under the aspens. Cork bark fir is a subspecies of sub-alpine fir. Any "all black barked" pines are usually just the younger ponderosa pines. Arizona has a enormous amount of younger ponderosa pine.

Posted Apr 4, 2009 3:39 pm


	lcarreau	Re: Corkbark Fir
	Hasn't voted	Thanks, I made the correction. Geez, I'm not used to seeing fir trees - guess I didn't know how high I was at the time. That was "some windstorm" that blew through the other day, wasn't it??? Makes me want to get out my "skull & crossbones" KITE.
		Posted Apr 4, 2009 7:45 pm