Lat: 48.3930 Lon: -119.8960 Elev(m): 1250
Pinus ponderosa
also know as bull pine, blackjack pine,western yellow-pine,or filipinus pine is the most common pine in North America, often found in mountanious regions. There are specimen with a confirmed height of more than 81 meter.
During the Operation Upshot–Knothole, a series of nuclear weapon tests, 145 ponderosa pines we cut down and brought to a testside in Nevada in order to see what an atomic blast wave would do to a forest.
It is the offical statetree of Montana