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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
July 19, 2001
Ponderosa and lodgepole pines help to form the canopy of the pine forests found throughout the High Desert at higher elevations. The forest floor found below is covered with bitterbrush, rabbit brush, manzanita and bunch grasses.
These forests " and their vegetative understory " were....